"Want you! Why, there's no one I'd rather interest in the affair than you." "Well, I can promise you my interest is pretty well excited already," Spencer answered.

"I'm with you right along.

Now tell me where you've been this evening, and what's happened." Duncombe recounted the evening's events.

His new ally listened and afterwards smoked for a moment or two in silence.
"It is simply wonderful," he declared.

"The whole secret-service system of Paris is working to cover up the traces of this boy and girl.