Chapter 26
Hinkle came back in the afternoon to make a hopeful report of his failure to learn anything more of Belsky, but Gregory did not come with him. He came the next morning long before Clementina expected visitors, and he was walking nervously up and down the room when she appeared. As if he could not speak, he held toward her without speaking a telegram in English, dated that day in Rome: She looked up at Gregory from the paper, when she had read it, with joyful eyes. "Oh, I am so glad for you! I am so glad he is alive." He took the dispatch from her hand. "I brought it to you as soon as it came." "Yes, yes! Of cou'se!" "I must go now and do what he says-I don't know how yet." He stopped, and then went on from a different impulse. "Clementina, it isn't a question now of that wretch's l
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