21/45 I can only come at night." "Ah!" the lady sternly said, "we must then play at hide and seek!" Ringing a silver bell twice, Madame Louison sank into a chair. Alan Hawke started up, inquiringly, as Jules and Marie entered the room from an ante-room, whose door was left ajar. "This gentleman is my secret business agent. He will call here in the evenings very often. He has pass keys of his own, and you need not announce him. |