The door into the big living-room was partly ajar, and he looked in.

The room was empty.

For a few moments he stood silent.

From the size and shape of the building whose outside walls he had followed in his hunt for Jean he knew there must be many other rooms, and probably other shorter corridors leading to some of them.
Just now his greatest desire was to come face to face with Croisset--and alone.

He had already determined upon a course of action if such a meeting occurred.