Jean Doudeville, the elder of the two, replied:
"The Englishwoman who occupied one of the bedrooms has gone."
"That doesn't interest me. I know all about her. But her neighbor, Major Parbury?"
They seemed embarrassed. At last, one of them replied:
"Major Parbury, this morning, ordered his luggage to be taken to the Gare du Nord, for the twelve-fifty train, and himself drove away in a motor. We were there when the train left. The major did not come."
"And the luggage?"
"He had it fetched at the station."
"By whom?"
"By a commissionaire, so we were told."
"Then his tracks are lost?"