"I wonder whether I might presume still further upon your good nature and ask you a question." "The asking," the Baron murmured, "involves nothing." "You bear, I am told, an honored name, and you are well received in society.

Why do you associate with murderers and thieves in that hell of a cafe where I saw you first ?" The Baron smiled.
"My friend," he said, "I seek always the life amusing, and I find it there." "I was robbed before your eyes, Baron." The Frenchman sighed.
"I am so sorry," he said, "that I did not see it.

That indeed would have been amusing." "You know that the young lady who sat with us is dead ?" "A most bizarre happening," the Baron assented with a little sigh.

"I cannot imagine how it occurred.

The newspaper reports are not convincing.