I rang up the Secretariat about nine o’clock and asked for Lavelle.
The concierge informed me that I could not be put straight through to him, because there was no night service on the internal exchange, but he volunteered to go and fetch him while I held the line.
conciergeAfter an interval of some minutes, the concierge returned to the telephone and told me that M. Lavelle had not yet arrived at the Secretariat.
conciergeI asked whether he was absolutely sure of this, to which he replied that he had come on duty about eight thirty; that no one had passed either in or out since that hour; but that M. Lavelle might quite possibly have come in before, as his room was locked, though he had received no reply to his knocking.
I rang off and reported the news to my friends.
“Probably he ha
