"How can you be so certain that your man isn't down there in the street ?" he asked.

"It's neither more nor less probable than every single one of your other suppositions." Placated by Renouard's docility the Editor gazed at him for a while.
"Aha! I'll tell you how.

Learn then that we have begun the campaign.
We have telegraphed his description to the police of every township up and down the land.

And what's more we've ascertained definitely that he hasn't been in this town for the last three months at least.

How much longer he's been away we can't tell." "That's very curious." "It's very simple.