"Who is De Guy?"
"A lawyer of New Orleans."
"And what agency had you in the affair?"
"None whatever."
"Then Mr. Dumont and De Guy are the only persons concerned in the transaction?"
"Yes."
"You are positive?"
"Yes."
"Then, how comes it, Mr. Maxwell, that they have intrusted you with their secret? How came you by this knowledge?" said Hatchie, fiercely, as he prepared, apparently, to swing up the attorney.
Maxwell was staggered by this question, and Hatchie perceived his discomfiture. That Maxwell had any agency in the transaction he only suspected; certainly it was not he whom he had seen with Jaspar on the night of his escape from Bellevue. There was much evidence for and much against him.