Ha, ha! You have a lot to learn yet, Master Dick." I looked impatiently at the clock.

Twenty minutes had already been wasted in my fruitless search.
"Then you haven't seen de Clericy ?" "No--my good boy--I haven't.

And if you cannot find him you may be sure that it is because he does not want to be found." The words followed me as I left the room.

It seemed that John Turner believed in no man.
There was nothing for it but to return to the Rue des Palmiers, and tell the Baron that I had failed to find my patron.

The cab I had hired was awaiting me, and in a few minutes I was rattling across the bridge of the Holy Fathers.
"Monsieur le Vicomte returned a few minutes ago," the butler told me.
"He has gone to the study, and is now with the Baron Giraud.