He observed the care with which the man kept close to his coat, and he pondered the matter as he hung upon the balcony.

If Chauvenet was on his way to America it was possible that he would carry with him the important paper whose loss had caused so much anxiety to the Austrian minister; if so, where was it during his stay in Geneva?
"The old man's death is only the first step.

We require a succession of deaths." "We require three, to be explicit, not more or less.

We should be fortunate if the remaining two could be accomplished as easily as Stroebel's." "He was a beast.

He is well dead." "That depends on the way you look at it.