Two on board, three with me, nine
with you, will be plenty! My work is a quiet job! I can do the
whole trick in five minutes! Yours, I leave for yourself. I know
just where to lay my hand."
"But, should any trouble occur?" said Alan Ha wke, "any outcry,
any pursuit?"
"Then I will bury the stuff on the shore, saunter back openly to
the Jersey Arms, and just stay there as friend Joseph Smith, till
I can get over to Granville by the steamer. The Hirondelle will
not be seen by any one; there are fifty luggers always hovering
around. She will first land us all in Bouley Bay in the morning, or
drop half the men off at St. Catherine's Bay in the early afternoon.
They all know every inch of the ground." In half an hour the chums
in villainy dined gayly with "Angelique," and a running mate,
rejoicing in the cognomen of "Petite Diable Jaune." The next day,
a secret meeting with a confidential Jewish money-lender, enabled
Major Alan Hawke to safely market the half of the jewels which he
had extorted from Ram Lal Singh. In a waist belt, he wore a thousand
pounds of Banque of France notes neatly concealed. Jack Blunt and
Garcia had earned an extra bonus of a hundred pounds each in the
jewel sale, and Alan Hawke laughed, as he laid away four thousand
pounds in his safely deposited luggage, in the railway office. "I
can trust to the French Republic--one and indivisible," he said,
as he sent a loving letter to Justine Delande, and then mailed her
the receipt for his valuable package, with his last wishes, "in
case of accident.
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