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He was disturbed in his mind, but he said nothing when he came on board. There was no use in worrying the others, and he had reasons of his own for keeping silence. All the same, if Visconti were here in Genoa and the prime mover in the Vanjour business, the thing was more serious than it had seemed at first.
Visconti, from what he knew of him, was no ordinary man. If he were a crook, then he must be at the very top of his profession. He had the manner and appearance of an Italian nobleman, and it was possible that he was strongly enough placed to be able to make overtures to the Italian police. Failing to make profit out of the cargo of the Lorna himself, he might choose to make profit out of the information he could give about it to the authorities.