"If your information is not worth the money, I will have it back from you; come into the office, where we shall not be disturbed." Tantaine took a chair, and glancing at Toto, who stood before him twirling his cap leisurely, said,-- "I heard you." The lad had by this time recovered his customary audacity.
"Five days ago," he began, "I was put on to Caroline Schimmel; I have found out all about her by this time.

She is as regular as clockwork in her duties at least.

She wakes at ten and takes her absinthe.

Then she goes to a little restaurant she knows, and has her breakfast and a game at cards with any one that will play with her.

At six in the evening she goes to the Grand Turk, a restaurant and dancing-shop in the Rue des Poisonnieres.