He added that Jenny, four days
later, had reported a glimpse of a man whom she believed to be her
uncle; but it was dark at the time and she could not be positive,
though she felt morally sure of him. He was standing two hundred
yards from the Villa Pianezzo in a lane from the hills and had
turned and hastened away as she approached.
To this statement Peter listened with the deepest attention and he
did not disguise his satisfaction when Mark made an end.
"I'm mighty glad for two things," he said. "First that you're in the
land of the living, my son, and that a certain bullet passed your
ear instead of stopping in that fine forehead of yours; and I'm glad
to know what you've told me, because it fits in tolerably well and
strengthens an argument you'll hear later. Your little trap was
quite smart, though I should have worked it a bit different myself.
However, you did a very clever thing, and to take Doria into your
confidence afterward was up to our best traditions. Your opinion of
him needn't detain us now.
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