CHAPTER XI.The Half-way House.—A Jolly German Landlord.—Detective Fox runs down Le Compte.—A “Positive, Prophetic, Healing and Trance Medium.”—Harcout the Adviser reappears, and is anxious lest Mr. Lyon be drawn into some terrible Confession.—Mr. Pinkerton decides to know more about Le Compte.—And with the harassed Mr. Lyon interviews him.—Treachery and Blackmail.—“A much untractable Man.”—Light shines upon Mrs. Winslow.—Another Man.—Mr. Pinkerton mad.
MANY other conveyances were passing to and fro, and Fox’s first impulse was to secure a seat in some one of them and follow the couple in the direction they had taken. But he recollected that it might cause either Mrs. Winslow, or the little fellow at her side to know him again, which would prove disastrous, and he was consequently obliged
