human
Your candle hasn't burned more than an hour,
gpt
It might be a second candle.
human
Then you wouldn't have been eating your breakfast orange. And you wouldn't have been waiting so patiently.
gpt
Coquenil, said De Heidelmann-Bruck slowly,
human
I give you credit for unusual cleverness, but if you tell me you have any inkling what I am waiting for----
gpt
It's more than inkling, answered the detective quietly,
human
I _know_ that you are waiting for the girl.
gpt
The girl?
human
The girl Alice or--Mary your stepdaughter.
gpt
God Almighty! burst out the baron.
human
What a guess!
gpt
No, not a guess, a fair deduction. My ring is gone. It was on my hand before you gave me that chloroform. You took it. That means you needed it. Why? To get the girl! You knew it would bring her, though _how_ you knew it is more than I can understand.
human
Gibelin heard you speak of the ring to Pougeot that night in the automobile.
gpt
Ah! And how did you know where the girl was?
human
Guessed it partly and--had Pougeot followed.
gpt
And she's coming here?
human
She ought to be here shortly. Then with a quick, cruel smile:
gpt
I suppose you know _why_ I want her?
human
I'm afraid I do,
gpt
Suppose we come in here, suggested the other.
human
I'm tired holding this candle and you don't care particularly about lying on that bag of shavings.