Now you will sit with your friend, M.Ricardo, whom, by the way, I have not yet introduced to you.

He is a very good friend of yours, mademoiselle, and will in the future be a still better one." Ricardo felt his conscience rather heavy within him, for he had come out to Geneva with the fixed intention of arresting her as a most dangerous criminal.

Even now he could not understand how she could be innocent of a share in Mme.

Dauvray's murder.

But Hanaud evidently thought she was.