"What are you saying, Chief? Have you guessed anything? Are you beginning to understand?"
"Yes, very vaguely, but, all the same, the really unnatural accuracy of those letters just seems to me a sign—"
He reflected for a moment and continued:
"Have they reëxamined the erased addresses of the three letters?"
"Yes; and they managed to make out the name of Langernault."
"Where does this Langernault live?"
"According to Mme. Fauville, at the village of Damigni, in the Orme."
"Have they deciphered the word Damigni on one of the letters?"
"No, but they have the name of the nearest town."
"What town is that?"