“Then do I gather that you have discovered the perpetrator of the tragedy?”
“I didn’t quite say that. But I think, though I am not quite sure, that I am on his track.”
think,quiteHe looked at me now, with his dark eyes glittering with a light which I did not quite understand then. Much as I was wishful to prolong the conversation, I did not attempt to do so, for many of his subordinates were waiting to see him, and he had a great deal of official business to transact. So I rose to go, and as he held my hand in his he said—
“By the way, the day after tomorrow, in the morning at dawn, a notorious ruffian is to be guillotined—one Pascal Flammarion, who did a whole family to death at Neuilly for the sake of a few francs. Would you care to attend the execution?” I hesitated what to answer, w
