"Doctor Chaleck!"
"What! M. Juve!—You here! Were you looking for me?"
Juve was dumbfounded. He drew Chaleck aside.
"Then you're attached to this hospital?"
"Oh, I have only leave to attend the courses."
"And I came here out of curiosity."
"In any case, allow me to thank you for the service you rendered me the other day. The officer who was with you seemed to take me for the guilty man."
"Well, you see, appearances...."
"But if anyone was a victim it was I. Apart from the finding of the murdered woman in my house, I have been robbed!"
Here the doctor broke off. A house surgeon was beckoning to him.