Let us hear the other one." "The second is more likely to be the true one.

Four years ago the newspapers were full of a remarkable abduction case.

A stranger--no one knew who he was--abducted the wife of a French officer from Dieppe.
Since then the betrayed husband has been searching all over the world for his runaway wife and her lover; and the pair at the castle are supposed to be they." "That certainly is the more plausible solution of the mystery.

But there is one flaw.

If the lovers fled here to Fertoeszeg to escape pursuit, the lady has chosen the very worst means to remain undiscovered.