"The pretty little woman has made off without a word to me. I am very much grieved!"
Five minutes later, Fandor jumped into a train which took him back to Paris.
XXIII
"STATES EVIDENCE"
"Juve, I've been fooled." The journalist was resting on the great couch in his friend's study, Rue Bonaparte, and wound up with this assertion the long account of the fruitless inquiry he had made at Dixon's.
"I'm played out! For two days I haven't stopped a minute. After the night at the "Crocodile," which I spent for the most part, as I told you, in search of Loupart, yesterday my day went in fruitless trips; my mind is made up; to-night I shall do no more!"
"A cigarette, Fandor?"
"Thanks."