Apologizing for their detention, he answered the questions put to him respecting
the boys, by positively denying that any such prisoners had been entrusted to his
charge, but offered to conduct him to every cell in the building to prove the truth
of his assertion. “What has she told you?”
“Everything. Whatever you need to do, it is your business. ”
“You will give up anything I wish you to give up. Was he pleased?”
“Calmly! He said—you won’t mind my telling you?”
“Not a bit. I
must apologize for disturbing you at such an unseemly hour, but I should be very
much obliged if Miss Pellissier would allow me a few minutes’ conversation. When Jack entered the cell, she was talking to herself in the muttering
unconnected way peculiar to her distracted condition; but, after her eye had
rested on him some time, the fixed expression of her features relaxed, and a
smile crossed them. They flash to and fro, they thrill us with
expectancy. "
The detective ruefully inspected the scarlet band on his perfecto.
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