"I shall need to see him."
"Like Madame d'Artelle, he has gone."
"He was here last night?"
"Certainly."
He shrugged his shoulders. The answer suited him admirably. "He was in your employ," he said, drily.
"I have nothing to conceal," I replied, putting as much doggedness into my manner as a guilty person might have used at the first glimpse of the net closing round him.
"It is a very grave case."
"I can see that—but I know who did what was done as well as who instigated it."
"You were a witness of it, you mean?"
"Of course I mean nothing of the kind. I did not see the blow struck; but I was not asleep at the time; and the instant the alarm was given I was on the spot, and I can identify all concerned."