Sensational development. The police say: "It is the late Jacques Dollon who has stolen the millions!"
This note showed clearly that Jérôme Fandor did not believe that Jacques Dollon could possibly be involved in this affair, or in either of the other crimes in connection with which his name had been mentioned.
XII
INVESTIGATIONS
A man jumped quickly out of the Auteuil-Madeleine tram.
It would have been difficult to guess his age, or see his face. He wore a large soft hat—a Brazilian sombrero—whose edges he had turned down. The collar of his overcoat was turned up, so that the lower part of his face was so far buried in it that his features were almost hidden. Then, during the entire journey, seated at the end of the tramcar he had kept his back turned on the other passenger: he seemed to be absorbed in watching the movements of the driver. At the end of the rue Mozart, where the rues La Fontaine, Poussin, des Perchamps meet, he had quitted the tram with real satisfaction.
Then, in the silence of the evening, the clock of Auteuil church had slowly struck eight silvery strokes.
The listening man murmured:
"Oh, there's no hurry after all. I've a two good hours' wait in front of me!"