"In type?"
"Monsieur does not read the papers?"
"Not all of them, mademoiselle."
"It appeared in Le Matin to-day, this quaint name Duchemin, in a despatch from Millau stating that a person of that name, a guest of the Château de Montalais, had disappeared without taking formal leave of his hosts."
"One gathers that he took something else?"
"Nothing less than the world-known Anstruther collection of jewels, the property of Madame de Montalais née Anstruther."
"But I am recently from the Château de Montalais, and in a position to assure mademoiselle that this poor fellow, Duchemin, is unjustly accused."
"Oh, ho, ho!"
He heard again that laugh of broad derision which had seemed so out of character with a great lady when he had heard it first, that night now nearly a month old.
"Mademoiselle does not believe?"