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back to civilisation.”
    “I don’t – understand,” Belinda complained.
    “I am coming to the explanation,” her stepfather answered. “What Logan does then is to go to a finance house which is to be trusted with the exploitation of his new discovery.”
    He paused a moment,
    “Sometimes it is in the country where he has bought his new property. Sometimes he comes to the City of London. Then he floats a Company in which he takes sixty percent of the shares.”
    Belinda gave an exclamation.
    Now the story was beginning to seem clearer.
    “The moment the formation of the Company is made public, because of Logan’s fantastic reputation, the other forty percent sell like lightning – in fact, it is almost impossible to ‘get in at the bottom’.”
    Belinda drew in her breath.
    “And that is what – you want to do – Step-Papa?”
    “Of course I do!” D’Arcy Rowland replied sharply. “If I can find out the name of the place where he has discovered what he is searching for, then all I have to do is to telegraph Stock Brokers in the country where it is situated or alternatively buy up every share I can at the London Stock Exchange.”
    Belinda looked at her stepfather before she asked quietly,
    “What – with?”
    “It is intelligent of you to ask that question, Belinda. Of course you will understand that I will have to share my discovery with somebody who can put up the money. Even so, if I can obtain the information I want, I can become a rich man overnight!”
    It all sounded to Belinda rather frightening.
    “I am told on the best authority,” D’Arcy Rowland said, “that Logan is now on his way home from abroad and should be in England in the next week or so.”
    “And that will help you?”
    “The only person who can do that is you, my dear,” D’Arcy Rowland replied.
    Belinda’s eyes opened wide.
    “I? But – how?”
    “Let me explain,” her stepfather replied. “In 1823 gold was discovered or produced for the first time in Russia. It has been contributing significantly to the world supplies since then.”
    He stopped a moment thoughtfully.
    “In fact, if it were not for the difficulty of communicating with the Russians, we should know a great deal more about the mineral resources of that country than we do now.”
    “Do you think,” Belinda said, “that Mr. Logan has been looking for – diamonds in Russia?”
    “I think he has been looking for
gold
,” her stepfather corrected her. “That would be a new departure for him and yet, who is likely to be more successful in finding it than he?”
    “I suppose it is quite possible that he could be as successful with gold as he has been with diamonds,” Belinda commented.
    She still could not think how this affected her until her stepfather said,
    “That is what you have to find out and I want to know it before his discovery is made public by the City financiers.”
    Belinda stared at her stepfather.
    “How can I – possibly find out – anything like that? I don’t even know – Mr. Logan.”
    “That is immaterial,” D’Arcy Rowland replied. “And actually he is
Lord
Logan. He inherited the title when his father died two years ago.”
    He gave a deep sigh.
    “As I have said, this is my only chance – otherwise, rather than submit to what lies ahead of me, I will put a bullet through my brain.”
    “No – no – Step-Papa! How can you
say
such a – thing?” Belinda cried. “And you have not – told me how I can do what you want.”
    She knew her stepfather made an effort to speak to her in the same beguiling tone as he had used before.
    “I was in Whites,” he said, “in the depths of despair, thinking it was a place I would never be able to go to in the future.”
    He smiled at her before continuing,
    “Then one of the members I was having a drink with said, not to me, but to the man next to him,
    ‘You don’t happen to know of anybody, old boy, man or woman, who speaks a number of languages, do you?’
    The