Imogen decides to try to recover the jewel for Crowther, and suggests that Crowther should get to know Jill and her circle. With her is Jill Leslie, wearing the sapphire pendant. One evening, Imogen and Legatt see the up-and-coming young singer Letty Ransome across a restaurant. The party breaks up, and Colhoun keeps a low profile in the following weeks. Robin Colhoun and Jill Leslie are there, and Colhoun is exposed as a cheat by Inspector Hanaud who has attended incognito at the request of one of the other guests. But once more the trail goes cold.īack in London, Cowther visits Legatt and asks for an entré to a private gambling salon in Savile Row. Imogen and Legatt fall in love.Ĭrowther catches up with the thieves at Colombo, and discovers that they had sold the sapphire on again to another dealer, from whom it has been bought by a Robin Colhoun for his companion Jill Leslie. Imogen travels on to Anuradhapura where a snake charmer hypnotizes her and escapes with the sapphire, Legatt arriving just a little too late. Having sold on the stone once, the thieves decide to repeat the exercise, and when Imogen visits the local beauty spot of Adam's Peak she is attacked and avoids being thrown off the mountainside only by Leggat's quick reactions. In Ceylon, Legatt bumps into a friend of his from London, Imogen Cloud, who has just purchased that very sapphire, now mounted as a pendant, from a local dealer. One night the sapphire is stolen by two thieves, and Crowther is given permission to try to recover it. He has given his possessions to a monastery, and the sapphire and trinkets now adorn the spire of the monastery's pagoda. Three years after his first visit, Legatt returns to Burma to find that Crowther has also returned and has in the meantime become a trainee Buddhist monk. Leggat's career takes him back to England where he hears nothing of Crowther, although he does spot him once in a London church. Unexpectedly, the bag contains a valuable sapphire. Crowther shows Legatt a small bag of trinkets that he has been given for safekeeping by his local Burmese 'wife', and tells him that he will never see her or their daughter again as he has decided to leave Burma and make a name for himself in London.
Travelling by steamer down the Irrawaddy River in Burma he makes the acquaintance of the captain, Michael Crowther, who has been in Burma for many years. The novel is narrated by Martin Legatt, a young man at the start of his career with the Forest Corporation, an international logging concern.
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