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If I do not return, report to me at Monsieur de Grissac's." He turned and disappeared in the crowd. Dufrenne went slowly back to the neighborhood of the shop, and stood in the shadow of the doorway, waiting. Presently he observed two of the assistants, in street clothes, leave the place and hurry off into the darkness. Neither of them was Seltz. The lights in the shop began to go out.
The latter, meanwhile, had turned from the railway station, and was proceeding up the street at a leisurely pace, when a young man approached him from behind, and touched him lightly on the shoulder. "Monsieur Dufrenne?" he inquired, smiling. The curio dealer glanced at the man who had accosted him, and an answering smile lit up his face. "Oh, Lablanche, glad to see you," he said.
Something in his astonished expression attracted the detective's attention at once. He tapped the curio dealer lightly on the shoulder. Dufrenne turned suddenly, much startled, then recognizing Duvall, drew him to one side. "I have watched the door every minute since you left," he said in a trembling voice. "Seltz did not come out yet he is not inside. No one is there but Monsieur Perrier."
Lablanche and Dufrenne withdrew into the adjoining room, where Seltz lay sleeping. The latter paused in the door as he went out. "Take care of the snuff box," he said, pointedly. "Remember the honor of France." Grace Duvall went to her room, at Dr.
The little old Frenchman stood gazing down at the sea, his face blue with cold, and filled with a look of bitter disappointment. He did not even glance up, as Duvall joined him. "Come, Monsieur Dufrenne," the detective said, kindly. "Let us go below." The old man accompanied him without a word. As they reached the companionway, however, he spoke. "We must return to London at once," he said.
But the doctor will discover, probably before the day is out, how he has been tricked. Then he will begin to investigate, and if he finds out that it was my wife who admitted the man, he may in his rage decide to retaliate upon her. I cannot think of leaving Brussels, without her. She must go with me. Upon that I am determined." Dufrenne looked grave, and a glint of anger came into his eyes.
The man Seltz showed neither haste nor nervousness in his movements if he was in a hurry to finish his work for the evening, and leave the place, he certainly did not show it. After a time, Dufrenne observed that the thin man in the chair next to him had opened his eyes, and was feeling his jaw with much satisfaction.
Unable to resist longer, she sank upon the seat and burst into tears. The two gendarmes awakened Duvall roughly, and after informing him that he was a prisoner, sat grimly down on either side of him. Dufrenne took the seat beside Grace. The train had again begun to move she realized that they were once more flying toward Paris.
"We have just learned," he said, gravely, "that our suspicions are entirely correct. Dr. Hartmann is responsible for the theft of the snuff box, and is momentarily expecting the man who is to deliver it to him." Dufrenne looked grave. "Duvall should know this without delay," he said. He had no more than spoken, when the telephone bell in his room rang.
His experience in summing up at a glance the general characteristics of those he met, however, stood him in good stead he remembered that the man had worn a long brown overcoat, a derby hat, and carried in his hand a small satchel. The latter, which Dufrenne had failed to mention, indicated a traveler the man's words to Seltz, on purchasing the box of powder, seemed to confirm it.
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