Detective Mondesir is over there, directing the hunt.

He regrets that he did not apprehend the man on the Boulevard de Rochechouart; but, all the same, the idea of following him was a capital one, and one can only reproach Mondesir with having forgotten the Bois de Boulogne in his calculations." Salvat arrested! That fellow Salvat whose name had filled the newspapers for three weeks past.

This was a most fortunate stroke which would be talked of far and wide! In the depths of Monferrand's fixed eyes one could divine a world of thoughts and a sudden determination to turn this incident which chance had brought him to his own personal advantage.

In his own mind a link was already forming between this arrest and that African Railways interpellation which was likely to overthrow the ministry on the morrow.

The first outlines of a scheme already rose before him.