It does look as if he were determined to make the case as black as possible against himself; but then, as I said before, no doubt he has good reasons." "He has no good luck, anyhow!" sighed Aunt Lil, who always liked Ivor.
"Rather not--so far.

Why, one of the worst bits of evidence against him is that the concierge of this house in the Rue de la Fille Sauvage swears that though Dundas hadn't been in the place much above half an hour when the detective arrived, he was there then _for the second time_, that he admitted it when he came.

The first visit he made, according to the concierge, was about an hour before the second: the concierge was already in bed in his little box, but not asleep, when a man rang and an English-sounding voice asked for Monsieur Gestre.

On hearing that Gestre was away, the visitor said he would see the gentleman who was stopping in Gestre's room.

By and by the Englishman went out, and on being challenged, said he might come back again later.
After a while the concierge was waked up once more by a caller for Gestre, who announced that he'd been before; and now he vows that it was the same man both times, though Dundas denies having called twice.