"
"Describe him to me," asked Ledantec, to try Hyde.
Hyde had seen Joe more than once in his rides through the hut-town,
and his answer was perfectly satisfactory.
"Did he send any message?"
"Just what I have told you. I was to let you know of his arrest and of
the danger you would run."
Ledantec was deceived by the straightforward and unhesitating way in
which Hyde told his story.
"It may be so. At any rate, the warning must not be despised. Whether
or not you are to be trusted remains to be seen. But I will keep you
safe for a day or two longer and see what turns up. In any case you
cannot do much mischief to Cyprienne while shut fast here."
"Cyprienne?" said Hyde, quite innocently.
"I am quite aware of one reason that brought you to Paris, but, as I
have said, you cannot well execute your threats so long as we hold you
tight."
Hyde shook his head as though these remarks were completely
unintelligible. But he laughed within himself at the thought that he
had already outwitted both Cyprienne and her accomplice, and that,
wherever he was, a prisoner or at large, events would work out her
discomfiture without him.
He had no fears for himself. They had promised him at the British
Embassy that he should be sought out if he did not reappear within
three days.
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