"You must come with me."
"Where to, bourgeois?"
"Into the Jardin des Plantes."
"Carriages ain't admitted; it's against the rules."
"I didn't say anything about your cab; I want only you. We will walk through the garden, and I want you to look closely at every man you see; and if you recognize the young man who escorted that lady back to your cab, you must point him out to me instantly."
The cabman began to laugh.
"My word! that's a good one, that is! You want me to go with you afoot, eh? And what will become of my cab and my horses in the meantime?"
"Mon Dieu! they won't fly away. Go and stand your cab over yonder where those others are."
"I can't do that, bourgeois; our orders is not to lose sight of our horses; I should be punished—discharged, perhaps."
Adhémar took ten more francs from his pocket and put them in the cabman's hand.