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Such were our instructions to proceed at once to madame's hotel, come in quietly by the servants' entrance which would be open and arrest a burglar with his female accomplice." Again the stout sergent moved toward Lanyard; again Madame Omber stopped him. "But one moment more, if you please!"
But he was on edge with unending apprehension of mischance. "Come, come!" Madame Omber insisted. "You're hardly civil, my man. Answer my question!" "You don't expect me to do you?" "Why not? You owe me at least satisfaction of my curiosity, in return for breaking into my house." "But if, as you suggest, I am or was acting with a purpose, why expect me to give the show away?" "That's logic.
Behind them Sidonie trotted, wringing her hands. "Madame!" she bleated "they wouldn't listen to me, madame I couldn't stop them!" "All right, Sidonie. Go back to the hall. I'll call you when needed.... Messieurs, good morning!" One of the sergents advanced with an uncertain salute and a superfluous question: "Madame Omber ?" The other waited on the threshold, barring the way.
He took advantage of that secluded spot to substitute false numbers for those he was licensed to display; then at a more sedate pace followed the line of the fortifications northward as far as La Muette, where, branching off, he sought and made a circuit of two sides of the private park enclosing the hotel of Madame Omber.
"That is not for me to dispute, madame. I have only my orders to go by." He felt tolerably sure Madame Omber had not sent for police on prior knowledge of his presence in the library. All this, then, would seem to indicate a new form of attack on the part of the Pack.
Scotland Yard would, he reckoned, require at least twenty-four hours to unlimber for action on the Omber affair; but the other, the theft of the Huysman plans, though not consummated before noon, must have set the Chancelleries of at least three Powers by the ears before Lanyard was fairly entrained at Charing Cross.
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