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"I CAME HERE TO WARN YOU."
"Levoire and the staff. It is rumoured that you are hiding in the ruins. I came here to warn you—you alone, mind, not the others."
He raised a finger as much as to say, "This is the compact between us." The Prussians round about were playing cards and dominoes, and quarrelling over their games. Ludenmayer, fallen serious in a moment, seemed to be turning over Sadi's words in his mind. Presently he said:—
"Levoire was a friend of yours, I think?"
"I had the honour to be instructor to his wife."
"Then she was your informant?"
He had put the idea into Sadi's head, and the fiddler seized upon it with avidity.
"We need not go into that. If you doubt her information, prove it for yourself. Your friends here are scarcely capable."