CHAPTER VI
The Trail Of Corpses
The inspector closed the door behind him. "What has brought you back into the arena?" he asked quietly.
"A riddle," the Frenchman answered, in an equally low tone.
"It must have been something pretty big to have tempted you," the inspector remarked, coming closer to him.
"It was," Monsieur Dupont admitted.
The other glanced cautiously towards the curtains at the far end of the room.
"Why are you here—in this house?" he demanded softly.