CHAPTER XX.
THIN PARTITIONS.
Gudel had been carried to his room, the innkeeper moaning over and over again, "How could this have happened?"
La Roulante established herself by the sick bed. She was livid with fear. The attempt had been a failure, and Bobichel had guessed it!
The persistent questions of Schwann made her very uneasy. Caillette said the same thing. She hardly knew what had happened; she only knew that her father had been injured.
Bobichel came in.
"The chain has been examined," he said, looking in La Roulante's face.
"What of that!" she cried. "Why do you meddle in what does not concern you? Do you mean to say that any one meddled with the chain?"