Oh, Monsieur, if you would help me to keep this secret I am telling you so frankly!" "Keep the secret, yet use it to free the Englishman ?" asked the Chief of Police gravely.
"Yes, I ask no less of you; I beg, I implore you.

It would kill me to break with Raoul du Laurier." "Dear Mademoiselle," said the good and gallant man, "trust me to do the best I can for you." (I could see that my tears had moved him.) "A grief to you would be a blow to Paris.

Yet--well, as you have been frank, I owe it to you to be equally so on my side.

I should before this have sent--quite privately and in a friendly way, to question you about this Mr.Dundas, who passed under another name at the hotel where you called upon him; but I received a request from a very high quarter to wait before communicating with you.

Now, as you have come to me, I suppose I may speak." "Ask me any questions you choose," I said, "and I'll answer them." "Then, to begin with, since you are engaged to Monsieur du Laurier, how do you explain the statement you made at the hotel, concerning Mr.
Dundas ?" "That is one of the many things I have come here on purpose to tell you," I answered him; "for I am going to give you my whole confidence.