"I am growing wary.

I will not tell you what you were asking yourself, M.Hanaud.For even were I right you would make out that I was wrong, and leap upon me with injuries and gibes.

No, you shall drink your coffee and tell me of your own accord." "Well," said Hanaud, laughing, "I will tell you.

I was asking myself: 'Why does a man who owns no motor-car, who hires no motor-car, go out into Aix and buy an automobilist's road-map?
With what object ?' And I found it an interesting question.

M.Harry Wethermill was not the man to go upon a walking tour, eh?
Oh, I was obtaining evidence.