CHAPTER X

WHO WROTE THE LETTER? AT TEN o’clock next morning Lefarge called for Burnley at the latter’s hotel in the rue Castiglione. “Now for M. Alphonse Le Gautier, the wine merchant,” said the former as he hailed a taxi. A short drive brought them to the rue de Vallorbes, off the Avenue Friedland, and there they discovered that the gentleman they were in search of was no myth, but a creature of real flesh and blood. He occupied a flat on the first floor of a big corner house, and the spacious approach and elegant furnishin…