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  cannot be avaricious when the life of one's brother is concerned. If you will get the little Jacob out of that hole I will pay you three times what you have received.'

How about the others?' I asked.

" 'Oh, the devil take the others! If their friends want them let them come after them. I will refund their money.'

" 'Very well,' said I. 'And now I will go ashore, as I want to think this thing out alone.'

"Rosenthal grinned his sardonic grin, and I left him and, passing through the custom house, strolled on across the square, past the monument to the American soldiers and over into the park opposite the baths, where I sat on a bench and tried to think against the infernal clatter of the  'Q'est ce qu'il dit?'  birds.

"For about an hour I sat there, and I can assure you, Doctor, that my brain was not idle. There were several very potent reasons for my wishing to carry through the task which I had undertaken. In the first place I [ 136 ]