Chapter 3
THE ENCLOSURE was written in French. Waring read it without scruple. The following is a translation:
My dear Bergson:
The bearer of this note is one Raoul Carvajal, recently a cafe dancer. At present he is most earnestly sought by the police, he having inadvertently knifed a cabman with whom he had some trifling dispute. I have used him once or twice in obtaining information concerning American habitués of the cafes where he danced, and have found him trustworthy. Considering that there is an extradition treaty between America and France, and that a word from either of us will mean his arrest and execution, we need hare little fear as to his fidelity.
His difficulty with the police is providential, so far as we are concerned, for he is exactly the sort of man you have been wa
