Part 83 (2/2)
”Ah!” said Potts, ”now the ht
Don't you suppose I saw through you when you first began to speak so mysteriously? I knew that you had learned so to trot it out at the right ti to bully ole is in hetti, fiercely
”And so you think I am, too?” sneered Potts
”Partly so”
”Why?”
”Because he was an accomplice of yours in the Despard murder”
”So he says, no doubt; but who'll believe hihetti, solemnly
”Queen's evidence!” returned Potts, contemptuously, ”and what's his evidence worth--the evidence of a entleman of unblemished character?”
”He will be able to shohat the character of that gentlehetti
”Who will believe him?”
”No one can help it”
”You believe him, no doubt You and he are both Italians--both dear friends--and both enemies of ole is such a scoundrel that his testihetti, furiously
Potts cast a look of contempt at him--
”Can't I!” He resuhetti! Let entleman of character and position about a et that the realsince been punished That miserable devil of a Malay was very properly convicted at Manilla, and hanged there It enty years ago What English court would consider the case again after a calm and impartial Spanish court has settled it finally, and punished the criminal? They did so at the time when the case was fresh, and I ca forward a ainst me Suppose he does? What then? Why, I will shohat this hetti, will be the first one who you up under oath, and ainst ainst a certain Langhetti senior, by which that certain Langhetti senior was betrayed to the Governlishmen, one of as this sahetti senior was your father, and that the son, instead of avenging, or at any rate resenting, his father's wrong, is now a bosoed hihetti, how you have led a roving life, and, when a druhter; how you followed her here, and seduced her away froained her; how you came to me with audacious threats; and how only the dread of further scandal, andyou over to the authorities I will prove you to be a scoundrel of the vilest description, and, after such proof as this, what do you think would be the verdict of an English jury, or of any judge in any land; and what do you think would be your own fate? Answer htful truth flashed at once across Langhetti's mind that Potts had it in his power here to show all this to the world He was overwhelmed He had never conceived the possibility of this Potts watched him silently, with a sneer on his face
”Don't you think that you had better go and coole, your father's intended ole told s about his life which would be slightly da you that the worst thing against hilish eyes is his betrayal of your father But this seeht matter to you It's odd too; I've always supposed that Italians understood what vengeance ony which he could not conceal
Every word of Potts stung him to the soul He stood for some time in silence At last, without a word, he walked out of the rooered rather than walked Potts looked after him with a se
CHAPTER XLIII