"Console yourself! I, too, don't like that young gentleman of whom they are all so proud. Maurice Thevenet has found nothing."
Jim looked at Hanaud in a perplexity.
"Here is a riddle," he said.
Hanaud rubbed his hands together.
"Prove to me that you have been ten minutes in the bull-ring," he said.
"I think that I have only been five," Jim replied with a smile. "Let me see! The arrow had not been discovered when we first entered these rooms?"
"No."
"And it is discovered now?"
"Yes."
"And it was not discovered by you?"