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Updated: May 21, 2025
The morning after the murder Steinmetz reappeared in Paris. From the hour at which he was seen at the gare, it was certain that he had travelled by the night express train in which Lucille and I had started from Lyons; and he wore that morning a travelling-coat of fur in all respects similar to the one I remembered so well.
"Very well, then!" said she, hastily walking toward the door. "Are you going already?" asked Jeanne, offering her brow to Madame Desvarennes's lips. "Yes, good-by!" said the latter, with an icy kiss. Jeanne, without again turning round, went into the drawing-room. At the same moment, Cayrol, in a travelling-coat, entered the office, followed by Pierre.
"The seafaring man with whom Shields was drinking on the last night of his life, and the gentleman in the fur travelling-coat who sent the telegram in your name and took away Margaret from Miss Marlett's, are in the same employment, or, by George, are probably the same person. Now, have you any kind of suspicion who they or he may be? or can you suggest any way of tracking him or them?"
Celia made a little sound of distaste as the detective presently returned to the room carrying in one hand a brown leather suit-case, and in the other a cardboard dress-box, to which was strapped a travelling-coat, lined with fur. Her face, which had regained its colour, paled again. "Lisette's things!" she muttered. "Oh I don't don't like to see them! What is it you want?"
There was no mistaking the sound which came to them from the road outside the regular throb and beat of a perfectly balanced engine. Then they heard a man's voice, cool and precise. "Here you are, then, and a sovereign for yourself. A capital little car this. Good night!" The little iron gate opened and closed. A tall man in a loose travelling-coat, and carrying a small bag, entered.
His manner was quite charming, yet his presence there was always puzzling, and had given rise to considerable speculation. Hill came in, and after helping the Frenchman to take off his heavy leather-lined travelling-coat, laid a small table for two and prepared breakfast. Then, when he had served it and left, Goslin rose, and, crossing to the door, pushed the little brass bolt into its socket.
He carried his papers in a leather case or pocket-book, in an inner breast-pocket of his buttoned travelling-coat; and whatever he dreamed of, in the lethargy that got possession of him, something importunate in those papers called him out of that dream, though he could not wake from it.
I had a delightful boyish feeling of coming home from school when he muffled me up next morning in an enormous bear-skin travelling-coat and took his seat protectively by my side. The sledge was a very small one and it looked utterly insignificant, almost like a toy behind the four big bays harnessed two and two. We three, counting the coachman, filled it completely.
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