In fact, I haven't yet put it together.

I'm keeping the pieces at our house, and nobody here knows exactly what I come to do at the factory.

So the police may search, it will find nothing.

Our secret runs no risk." Pierre promised to repeat these words to Guillaume, so as to dissipate his fears.

However, when he tried to sound Thomas, and ascertain the position of affairs, what the factory people thought of the discovery of the bradawl, and whether there was as yet any suspicion of Salvat, he once more found the young man taciturn, and elicited merely a "yes" or a "no" in answer to his inquiries.