The young lawyer started, and asked,—
“Since when are you here?”
“Since this morning, by express. Twenty-four hours too late, I know; for I bought a newspaper at the station. M. de Boiscoran has been found guilty. And yet I swear I did not lose a minute; and I have well earned the gratuity which I was promised in case of success.”
“You have been successful, have you?”
“Of course. Did I not tell you in my letter from Jersey that I was sure of success?”
“You have found Suky?”
“Twenty-four hours after I wrote to you,—in a public-house at Bonly Bay. She would not come, the wretch!”
“You have brought her, however?”
“Of course. She is at the Hotel de France, where I have left her till I could come and see you.”
“Does she know any thing?”