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.

They certainly travelled with the murdered man; and a friend of his called Gestre, just back from Marseilles, has sworn that these persons were formerly partners of Janson, the deceased.

If Janson stole the necklace from Monsieur du Laurier, with this pair as accomplices, and then tried to cheat them, a motive for the crime is evident.