"How did you guess that Cranajour was still at liberty?" asked Monsieur Havard.
Fandor smiled.
"Good business! You take me to be more stupid than I am. It is Cranajour's information which has enabled you to arrest the band of Numbers. Consequently!..."
"Cranajour's information? You are mad, Fandor!... Whatever makes you imagine that Cranajour belongs to our force?"
Fandor looked Monsieur Havard straight in the eye and said coolly:
"Juve has never told me that he had sent in his resignation!"
Monsieur Havard looked searchingly at our journalist, before remarking:
"Come now! What is this you are telling me? Poor Juve?..."
Fandor wished to save the chief of the detective department from telling useless falsehoods.
"Monsieur Havard! Monsieur Havard! Interrogate the members of the band of Numbers, and don't trouble about how I got my information ... but, be sure of one thing, there are dead men of whom I could tell tales, of whose existence I am as well aware of as you yourself!"