They entered the garden, the cab driver walking beside Adhémar, who said to him:
"Look carefully at all the men—the young men, I mean—and as soon as you see the one who was with that lady, say: 'There he is!'"
"All right, bourgeois; or, say I cough to warn you?"
"Very well."
There were few people in the garden. Adhémar walked rapidly, and his companion could hardly keep up with him.
"Sapristi!" he cried; "you travel faster than my horses!"
A young man passed them, and the cabman began to cough.
"Well!" exclaimed Adhémar, stopping abruptly.
"That's not the man, bourgeois."
"What in the devil did you cough for, then?"