As if Inspector Loup had no agents in the Postes et Télégraphes and had not already generously sampled the contents of Jean's mail, going and coming! But there are some cynical plotters in France who never use the public mails and, understanding the thoroughness of the Secret System, prefer direct communication.
"It is infamous!" said the girl, when she had calmly perused the letter.
"It is damnable!" said Jean.
"Still, it is his business to know."
"It is a miserable business,—a dishonorable business! And Monsieur l'Inspecteur will follow his dirty trade without any help from me!"
"Very surely!" said Mlle. Fouchette, emphatically.
"I've had enough of politics."
"Good!" cried she, gleefully.
"But, I'd like to punch the fellow who wrote this," he muttered, tearing an insulting letter into little bits and throwing them on the floor.
She laughed. "But that is politics," she remarked.