Omber

"If that's permission to interrupt your reverie," Madame Omber remarked,

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Again the stout sergent moved toward Lanyard; again Madame Omber stopped him.

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Yet he was unable to rid himself of those misgivings roused by De Morbihan's declaration that the theft of the Omber jewels had been accomplished only at cost of a clue to the thief's identity.

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

True, he had the Omber jewels; but they were not negotiable -- not at least in Paris.

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

"You carry your reason with you, my friend -- in the shape of the Omber loot."

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

And he entertained a gloomy suspicion that he would be inclined to name another ass, who proposed as he did to beard this Pack in its den with nothing more than his wits and an automatic pistol to protect ten thousand-francs, the jewels of Madame Omber, the Huysman plans, and

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

"Madame Omber -- of course!" the American agreed thoughtfully.

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Scotland Yard would, he reckoned, require at least twenty-four hours to unlimber for action on the Omber affair; but the other, the theft of the Huysman plans, though not consummated before noon, must have set the Chancelleries of at least three Powers by the ears before Lanyard was fairly entrained at Charing Cross.

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

For by now the news of the Omber affair must have thrilled many a Continental telegraph-wire ....

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906

"This, I take it," said the Jew absently, tapping the box, "is the jewellery of Madame Omber."

The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906