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"You would like to know their fate?"
"I would indeed."
"Well, I applaud the Englishman's chivalry. Vive l'Entente Cordiale!"
"You are a man to understand such chivalry, Monsieur. Now that I've
humbled myself, can't you give me hope that he'll soon be released, and
yet that--that I shan't be made to suffer for my confession to you? It's
clear to you, isn't it, that the murder must have been done long before
he could have reached the house in the Rue de la Fille Sauvage from the
Rue d'Hollande?"
"Yes, that is clear. And needless to say, I believe your statement,
Mademoiselle. You are brave and good to have come forward as you have,
without being called upon. There are still some formalities to be gone
through before Mr. Dundas can be released; but English influence is at
work in high quarters, and after what you have told me, I think he will
not much longer be under restraint. Besides, I may as well inform you,
dear lady, that not ten minutes before you arrived this morning I
received satisfactory news of the arrest of two Englishmen at Frankfort,
who seem to have been concerned in this business in the Rue de la Fille
Sauvage.
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