“I wish you would tell me something about Yvonne Ferad,” he repeated.
“Alas! m’sieur, I am not permitted,” was her obdurate reply. “I am truly sorry to hear of the dastardly attack upon her. She once did me a very kind and friendly action at a moment when I was in sore need of a friend.”
“Who could have fired the shot, do you think?” Henfrey asked. “You know her friends. Perhaps you know her enemies?”
Mademoiselle Lisette was silent for some moments.
“Yes,” she replied reflectively. “She has enemies, I know. But who has not?”
“Is there any person who, to your knowledge, would have any motive to kill her?”
Again she was silent.
“There are several people who hate her. One of them might have done it out of revenge. You say you saw nobody?”
“Nobody.”
“Why did you go and see her at that hour?” asked the girl.