A police agent is left to watch the place, while search and arrest orders are applied for.

The granting of these is accidentally delayed.

When they are ultimately obtained, it is discovered that the man and the woman are both missing.
They have not hitherto been traced.

(4.) The landlord of the house is immediately arrested, as well as the police agent appointed to watch the premises.

The landlord protests that he knows nothing of his tenants.
It is suspected, however, that he has been tampered with, as also that Trudaine's papers, delivered to the citizen and citoyenne Dubois, are forged passports.