He went on, with varying luck, winning and losing.
At the end of a quarter of an hour they permitted him to go.
“And what are you going to do now?” Duphot asked.
“To send what I owe to my creditors by telegraph.”
“Do you know where the telegraph is?”
“No.”
“I will go with you.”
This was a second witness that Saniel was too wise to shake off.
When he had sent his telegram to Jardine, he had nothing more to do at Monte Carlo, and as he could not leave before eleven o’clock in the evening, he was idle, not knowing how to employ his time. So he bought a Nice newspaper and seated himself in the garden, under a gaslight, facing the dark and tranquil sea. Perhaps he could find in it some telegraph despatch which would tell him what had occurred in the Rue Sainte-Anne since his departure.
At the end of the paper, under “Latest News,” he read: