"
And within an hour Hyde found himself in his old quarters--a separate
cell of the depot of the Prefecture. The other prisoners were lodged
there also, but apart from him and each other.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE SCALES REMOVED.
The capture made by the police in the Faubourg St. Martin was kept
secret. Under the Second Empire nothing was published except with the
permission of the authorities, and they had their reasons for not
talking too openly of Hyde's arrest. He was a British subject, a
military officer moreover, and these were claims to the consideration
of French justice that would not have been so readily recognised
fifteen years before.
It was, of course, inevitable that the affair of Tinplate Street
should be re-opened. But a new complexion was given to it by the
recent arrests. Hyde had been interrogated at once by the magistrate
who had examined him before; the same man, but so different; no
longer insolently positive and threatening unjustly, but bland,
considerate, obliging. The fact was he had had a hint from his
superiors to treat the Englishman gently.
"The truth must come out now," Hyde had said, when asked if he
remembered the circumstances of his former arrest. "You have the real
culprit in custody."
"This Ledantec, I suppose?" asked the judge.
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