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In all the course of his tortuous, twisted life, Zambra had never been more bewildered and puzzled than he was at that moment. He knew, of course, that fate had played some amazing trick upon him, but how far the smiling beauty opposite him was responsible for this last misfortune it was impossible for him to say with any degree of certainty.
And now Cleopatra had done the last thing in the world that he wanted. Knowing full well where the missing diamond came from, and being alive to all the circumstances that surrounded that magnificent stone, she had actually had the audacity to place that matter in the hands of the police and that without consulting the party most deeply concerned in the business.