"By the way, where is the telegram from Marthe Gobin ?" "You put it in your letter-case." "Oh, did I ?" Hanaud took out his letter-case and found the telegram within it.

His face lightened.
"Good!" he said emphatically.

"For, since we have this telegram, there must have been another message sent from Adele Rossignol to Aix saying that Marthe Gobin, that busybody, that inquisitive neighbour, who had no doubt seen M.Ricardo's advertisement, was on her way hither.

Oh it will not be put as crudely as that, but that is what the message will mean.

We shall have him." And suddenly his face grew very stern.