“Do you doubt?” asked the Man of Mystery. “If I have not told you the truth, why is that needle hidden in the fan?”
“Why, indeed?”
Frank did not doubt any longer.
“Give me the fan!” he exclaimed. “I want it! I want to keep it, along with other curiosities I have gathered in various parts of the world.”
“You are not yet out of France. You seem to feel that you will leave the country. Are you going at once?”
“What do you mean? Am I going to run away?”
“You realize your danger. There is nothing to keep you here longer. Why shouldn’t you go?”
“Do you urge me to go?”
“I urge you to do nothing. Follow your own desires.”
“I must have time to think it over. I do not fancy being driven out of the country in such a manner! If there was a show of making a fight——”