His eyes glinted as he produced a little bunch of skeleton keys and started to open the suitcases, but to his amazement and disappointment they were all unlocked.
Opening the battered one first, he at once came upon four long, big, thick envelopes lying upon the top and addressed in very fine handwriting to "Herr Blitzen, Arragon Hotel."
"A-ah," he exclaimed gleefully. "Documents! Now we'll learn something about this elegant gentleman!"
But all each envelope contained was copies of four different German daily newspapers, all published in Berlin. There was no letter of any kind, neither were there any markings anywhere on the newspapers.
But Larose's eyes almost bulged from his head and his mouth opened wide when he saw that the date of the newspapers in one envelope was that of the pre
