"He has reasons, no doubt," remarked the detective.
"It is just four o'clock," I remarked. "He has given me a rendezvous at the Café de la Règence, a little place at the corner of the Place d'Armes. I went round to find it as soon as I arrived. We're due there in a quarter of an hour."
"Then let us go, messieurs," Frémy suggested.
"And what about Miss Shand?" I asked.
The two detectives held a brief discussion. Then Edwards, addressing me, said:
"I really think that she ought to be present, Mr. Royle. Would you bring her? Prepare her for a scene—as there no doubt will be—and then follow us."
"But Senos will not speak without I am present," I said.
"Then go along to Miss Shand, give her my official compliments and ask her to accompany us upon our expedition," he replied.
And upon his suggestion I at once acted.
Truly those moments were breathless and exciting. I could hear my own heart beat as I went along the hotel corridor to knock at the door of her room.