"I've come from Sarzeau," he said. "I have seen the monks of the abbey. I have bought from them the ruins of Roche-Périac."
"Heavens!" cried Dorothy. "Do you mean to end your days here?"
"No; but Errington, Dario, and I wish to search in peace; and for peace there is no place like home."
"Archibald Webster, you seem to be very rich; are you as firmly bent on finding the diamonds as all that?"
"I'm bent on this business of our ancestor Beaugreval ending as it ought to end, and that chance shouldn't, some day or other, give those diamonds to some one, without any right to them, who happens to come along. Will you help us, Dorothy?"
"Goodness, no."
"Hang it! Why not?"
"Because as far as I am concerned, the adventure came to an end with the punishment of the culprit."
They looked downcast.
"Nevertheless you're staying on?"