Ursus smiled a haughty smile.
"Innkeeper, tell the proprietor of the circus that Gwynplaine is coming back."
The innkeeper took something from a chair in the darkness, and turning towards Ursus with both arms raised, dangled from one hand a cloak, and from the other a leather esclavine, a felt hat, and a jacket.
And Master Nicless said, "The man who knocked the second time was connected with the police; he came in and left without saying a word, and brought these things."
Ursus recognized the esclavine, the jacket, the hat, and the cloak of Gwynplaine.
CHAPTER IV.
MOENIBUS SURDIS CAMPANA MUTA.
Ursus smoothed the felt of the hat, touched the cloth of the cloak, the serge of the coat, the leather of the esclavine, and no longer able to doubt whose garments they were, with a gesture at once brief and imperative, and without saying a word, pointed to the door of the inn.
Master Nicless opened it.