human
What do you think of it all, Cyril?
gpt
I really don't know. We seem to be involved in a web through which we cannot break? Durgo certainly seems to be a very strange being, and in spite of my disbelief in the existence of occult powers I am inclined to think that he knows some strange things. He looks like a negro, and talks and acts like a white man. Indeed, no white man would be so unselfish as to surrender those jewels to you as Durgo has done.
human
He puzzles me,
gpt
And me also. However, the best thing to be done will be to leave matters in his hands. In one way or another he will learn the truth, and then we can get back the jewels and marry.
human
Do you think your father has the jewels, Cyril?
gpt
My dear, he said frowning,
human
I can't be sure now that my father is alive. I begin to believe that there may be something in Granny's trances, after all, since she hinted at my father's death at Huxham's hands. And terrible as it may seem, added Lister, turning slightly pale with emotion,
gpt
I would rather think that he was dead than live to be called the murderer of Jabez Huxham. I would like to come to you, he said, folding Bella in his strong young arms,