For me the curtain had fallen upon that tragedy.

It was the other things which occupied my mind.

I seemed to have found my way into a maze, to have become mixed up in certain affairs in a most mysterious and inexplicable way.

What was the meaning of that place to which Louis had introduced me?
Was it some sort of secret organization,--an organization which assumed to itself, at any rate, the power to circumvent the police?
And Bartot, too! Had he really the power which Louis had declared him to possess?
If so, why had he baited a clumsy trap for me and permitted me to walk out of it untouched?
What did they want from me, these people?
The thought was utterly confusing.

I could find absolutely no explanation.