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"No one was shot, if you mean that," the sergeant admitted. "Is Isaac in custody?" "He very likely is by this time," the sergeant said. "As a matter of fact, he got away. A friend of yours, is he?" "Certainly not," Arnold answered. "I have an attic on the other side of the landing there, and I have made friends with the girl. My interest in Isaac Lalonde is simply because she is his niece.
The consequence is that although we may be said to be working for the same ends, we have drawn a little apart. We have had no communications whatever with Lalonde and his friends since the murder of Rosario. Therefore, I can only repeat that I am entirely in the dark as to what that man was doing in my sister's rooms or how he met with his death.
"I do not understand," Arnold said, after a moment's silence, "what interest Lalonde could have had in killing Rosario." Sabatini contemplated for a few moments the tip of his patent shoe. Then he sighed gently and lit a cigarette. "For a young man," he remarked, "it is certain that you have a great deal of curiosity. Still, you have also, I believe, discretion. Listen, then.
Arnold spoke a word or two of introduction. Sabatini pulled up a chair and sat down at once by the girl's side. He had seen the stick and seemed to have taken in the whole situation in a moment. "Please be very good-natured," he begged, turning to Arnold, "and go and find my sister. She will like to know that I am here. I am going to talk to Miss Lalonde for a time, if she will let me.
Please go on." "If Isaac's story is true," Arnold continued slowly, "you should indeed be interested in her." Sabatini's eyebrows were slightly raised. "I scarcely understand," he murmured. "I pray go on." "According to his story," Arnold said, "Ruth Lalonde is your daughter." Sabatini stood perfectly motionless.
"We will not discuss it," Sabatini declared, with a smile. "You and I need not waste our time in academic discussion. These things are beside the mark. What I had to say to you is this. If you really wish to speak with Isaac Lalonde, and will give me your word to keep the knowledge of him to yourself, I can tell you where to find him."
He drew the Evening News from his pocket and passed it to her. The paragraph to which he pointed was headed Up to the time of going to press, the man Isaac Lalonde, whom the police failed to arrest last night on a charge not at present precisely stated, has not been apprehended.
"If you want to get past, you had better take one of the turnings to the left." "My destination is just here," Sabatini replied. "Tell me, what is the cause of this disturbance?" "Some of our men have gone to make an arrest in the street there, sir," the inspector replied, "and we are having some trouble." "Is it the man Isaac Lalonde whom you are after?" Sabatini asked.
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