CHAPTER LXIV.
[A STARTLING DENOUEMENT.]
"What is your name and calling?"
"I am of the Criminal Investigation Department in Paris. Joseph Pitou, a name well known."
"We are familiar with it in England. You have come to London on special business?"
"In association with my esteemed confrère, Monsieur Lambert, I have come to make the arrest of a notorious criminal."
"You speak excellent English?"
"You are pleased to say so. It is to me as my mother tongue; as is also Italian, German, and various dialects of the Turkish and Polish languages."
"What is the name of the notorious criminal you have come to arrest?"
"Louis Lorenz."