"I know that without the newspaper, you imbecile. It was I that told you, for I saw all three pass under the window while I was locked in. Is there anything else you know?"
"Oh, yes! There was another person with them."
"I daresay," Toto answered, pretending blank indifference. "He must have been close to the wall as they went by. What difference does it make since that pig of an engineer got out?"
"The other person was caught with him when the water rose," said Gigi, who meant to give his information by inches.
"Curse him, whoever he was! He helped the engineer and that is why they got out. No man alone could have broken through that wall in a night, except one of us."
"The other person was only a woman, after all," answered Gigi. "But you do not care, I suppose."
"Speak, animal of a Jesuit that you are!" cried Toto. "Do not make me lose my soul!"
Gigi smiled and drank some of his wine.
"There are people who would pay to know," he said, "and you would never tell me whether the sluice gate of the 'lost water' is under number thirteen or not."
"It is under number thirteen, Master Judas. Speak!"