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Q Why? Is he Ragobah's friend?

A Ragobah has no friends, Sahib

Q Why, then?

A He under oath to tell as told him only to one person He has keep his secret out of every year for more as twenty year, and can no be expect to tell to you, Sahib

Q Can you bring this man to me? You will both be well paid for your ti him, Sahib, but I not ht at eight, at Herr Blaschek's villa on Malabar Hill Ask for Mr Maitland

A We be there Anything obah expected to return?

A He write that he think he return on the Dalobah any physical peculiarities?

A His hands and feet they very s else?

A His left leg been hurt The foot very bad shape, and the whole leg some bad, and,--what you call--halt when he walk

Q Has he the habit of biting his finger nails?

A I not know he has, Sahib

This completed the list of questions which I had desired to ask hi his assurance that he wouldwith his friend Scindia, I left him As you know, I am not wont to draw conclusions until all the evidence is in, but Iat the whole matter froobah a net of circu, and with a mesh of detail so minute, that it does not seem possible a mosquito could escape froobah alone, so far as we know, has a motive for thebetween them and foretold, with an air of the utmost assurance, just such an outcome thereof Add to this that this man leaves India on a mission which those about hieance, at just such a time as would enable him to reach Boston just a little before the commission of the murder; that thissearch for revenge; that this ainst some rival in his wife's affections, and the chain of circumstantial evidence possesses, so far as it extends, no weak link Then, too, Ragobah has very sait,-- everything almost which we had already predicted of the assassin So sure auilty man that I shall ask for his arrest upon his arrival day after to-ret to say, does not iether likely Should he not come I shall cable you to institute a search for your end of the line The next thing in order which I have to relate is ed an interpreter, but was able to dislish with ent and well-to-do ht it wise to see the venerable Scindia alone, and accordingly sent Parinaive you what passed between us as I jotted it down in my notebook