'On the contrary, I see her every day, nearly.'

'But if she lives at Bruges and you are in Paris—'

'Bruges?'

'Yes; Place Saint-Étienne.'

Darcy thought for a second.

'So it's you who have been on the track,' he murmured.

Hugo, too, became meditative in his turn.

'I wish you would tell me all that happened since—since that night,' he said at length.

'I ask nothing better,' said Darcy. 'Since Ravengar is dead and all danger passed, there is no reason why you should not know everything that is to be known. Well, Mr. Hugo, I have had an infinity of trouble with that girl.'

Hugo's expression gave pause to the doctor.