"Did not you understand that?
Yet it is surely clear and obvious, if you once grant that the girl was innocent, was a witness of the crime, and was now in the hands of the criminals.

Grant me those premisses, M.Ricardo, for a moment, and you will see that we had just one chance of finding the girl alive in Geneva.

From the first I was sure of that.

What was the one chance?
Why, this! She might be kept alive on the chance that she could be forced to tell what, by the way, she did not know, namely, the place where Mme.

Dauvray's valuable jewels were secreted.