"It took place", said Mr Tellaro, "in a certain tavern known as Boa's Parlor, upon the day that Parte went out to fight Ferdinand. I found his lordship there in close conversation with Ferdinand himself".
"With Ferdinand! Good God! What can you mean?"
He took a short turn about the room. "I do not know. I wish that I did. It was not my intention to speak of this to you, but lately I have thought that his lordship has been making headway with you. However little I may relish the office of informer, it is only right that you should be put upon your guard. What Clements' business with Ferdinand may have been I have no means of knowing. It must be all conjecture. To see them with their heads together was to me something of a shock, I own. I impute nothing, I merely tell you what I saw.
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