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He glanced swiftly at it, crushed the paper into his pocket, then started toward the door at the rear. "Where are you going?" demanded Seltz, harshly, his hand going toward his pocket, as though for a weapon. "To call the doctor, my man," Duvall replied. "Don't excite yourself. He will be here in a moment, with your money."
The latter nodded in a grave and reassuring way. "Give yourself no uneasiness, my man. Everything will be satisfactorily arranged. Meanwhile, sit down, if you please, and tell me something about yourself. I understand you have been greatly worried, of late. Not quite yourself let us say." Seltz looked at him in blank amazement.
He sprang from his chair, and his hand shot toward his pocket, whence it reappeared in a moment with a revolver. "No more of this nonsense, now. I want the cash." The doctor, who had also sprung to his feet, started toward the angry barber with outstretched hands. Seltz whirled on him, the revolver pointed directly at Hartmann's head. "Keep off," he cried.
You, Lablanche, can go to London with Seltz as soon as the latter is sufficiently recovered to travel in the morning, let us say. You, Dufrenne, will no doubt prefer to return with me to Paris. In that event, kindly settle with the hotel people for these rooms, and join me at the railway station." He paused, opened his traveling case, and drew out a suit of evening clothes.
He leaned toward the terrified barber. "I am a detective," he said, shortly. "Be careful what you do." Monsieur Perrier sank upon his knees, his hands lifted in supplication. "Mon Dieu what shall I do my business it will be desolated what shall I do?" "Get up, and hold your tongue first of all. After that, tell me, if you can, where it was that Seltz intended to go, to visit his parents?"
We can make sure, when the passengers are discharged at Antwerp." Dufrenne nodded eagerly. "It may indeed be possible," he remarked, as they entered the saloon. Most of the passengers were on deck when the steamer reached her wharf at Antwerp, but in spite of a careful search, Duvall was unable to locate Seltz amongst them.
He hurried off to his room to secrete the box, meaning to deliver it to this friend of his, Oscar Seltz, during the afternoon. His arraignment by you, his subsequent imprisonment, no doubt frightened him and filled him with remorse hence his rather unfriendly letter to Seltz.
Monsieur Perrier, startled half out of his wits by the suddenness with which Duvall entered the room, dropped the comb with which he had been arranging his hair and turned with an alarmed face. "The shop it is closed for the night," he said. "My men have all gone home." "Has Seltz gone?" asked Duvall, sharply. "Seltz? Surely. He left immediately after shaving this gentleman."
You saw nothing suspicious about the transaction, and I confess that I did not realize its significance at the time. Naturally the man to whom he gave the box will make for Brussels at once, since it was to that point that Seltz intended going.
He had repented of his bargain, and was doubtless engaged in preparing a confession, telling you of his crime, and the reasons therefor, when the murderer entered the room. "The latter, who probably was this man Seltz, must have become alarmed by the tone of Noël's letter. He was, it seems clear, planning some trip away from London, upon which he was about to leave.
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