I explain eferyting den.
Now, I go." "You had better stay where you are, Monsieur de Courtois," said Steingall in French.

"Milord Valletort and Count Vassilan have arrived.

I have seen them, and nothing more can be done with respect to their affair tonight.

I am the chief of the New York Detective Bureau, and I want you to tell me how you came to be in the state in which you were found." But de Courtois was regaining his wits rapidly, and the clarifying of his senses rendered him obviously unwilling to give any information as to the cause of his own plight.

Nor would he speak French.