With these and with money, it may not be impossible that they have already succeeded in escaping from France.

The proper measures have been taken for stopping them, if they have not yet passed the frontiers.

No further report in relation to them has yet been received (5.) Trudaine and his sister are under perpetual surveillance, and the undersigned holds himself ready for further orders .-- Signed, MAGLOIRE.

Countersigned, LOMAQUE." Having finished reading his notes, Magloire placed them on the writing-table.

He was evidently a favored man in the office, and he presumed upon his position; for he ventured to make a remark, instead of leaving the room in silence, like his predecessor Picard.
"When Citizen Danville returns to Paris," he began, "he will be rather astonished to find that in denouncing his wife's brother he had also unconsciously denounced his wife." Lomaque looked up quickly, with that old weakness in his eyes which affected them in such a strangely irregular manner on certain occasions.
Magloire knew what this symptom meant, and would have become confused if he had not been a police agent.