“It is not only possible, but it is absolutely so.”
“I declare, that is too bad! If I were a man I’d pitch ’em both overboard, so I would. They look like a brace of sneak thieves anyhow. What can they want with Ingomar?”
“That I don’t know; but you may be sure I’ll find out ere long, for I have got a clever detective on their track; in other words, I have got them spotted.”
“If a hundred witnesses were to swear that Ingomar was a criminal, I wouldn’t believe it.”
“Don’t believe anything unless you want to, but what would you think if it should turn out after all that Ingomar has murdered his rival in love?”
“Oh, horrible! Don’t speak so, I beseech you!”
“Such things have happened, and why not happen again?”
“Yes, but Ingomar is not a man of that sort; I’d risk my life on it.”
“Well, now, I have told you all I know, let’s hear about the black domino.”
“I have found out scarcely anything, except the fact that she is very sad, and is often found weeping in her state-room. I have been watching her closely, though she seems to avoid me as much as she can. I think the old gentleman with the white beard is her uncle, and I heard her say to him this morning that she could not endure it much longer.”