"Did he see you then?"
"I would stake my life on it!" asserted Juve.
"Just when?... Where?... In the street?" de Loubersac was keenly interested.
"No—just when I was arrested."
"But, from what I have heard, there were very few of you!" cried de Loubersac. "Then the real Vagualame must have been at the Baron de Naarboveck's?"
"Hah!" was Juve's non-committal exclamation.
"Whom do you suspect?"
Juve kept silence.
Suddenly he concealed himself behind a deserted goods waggon. De Loubersac did the same. Both fixed examining eyes on a couple coming in their direction. They were not the expected pair of traitors.
"Who?" again asked de Loubersac.