“And what was this information you so urgently desired?”
“Some important information. I travelled from London to Monte Carlo in order to obtain it.”
“Ah! Then you had a motive in coming here—some strong motive, I take it?”
“Yes. A very strong motive. I wanted her to clear up certain mysterious happenings in England.”
Ogier was instantly alert.
“What happenings?” he asked, for he recollected the big dossier and the suspicions extending over four or five years concerning the real identity and mode of life of the handsome, sphinx-like woman Yvonne Ferad.
Hugh Henfrey was silent for a few moments. Then he said:
“Happenings in London that—well, that I do not wish to recall.”
Ogier again looked him straight in the face.
“I suggest, M’sieur Henfrey”—for Hugh had given him his name—“I suggest that you have been attracted by Mademoiselle as so many other men have been. She seems to exercise a fatal influence upon some people.”