CHAPTER XVI

INSPECTOR BURNLEY UP AGAINST IT AT NINE o’clock that evening the usual meeting was held in the Chief’s room at the Sûreté. “I also have had some news,” said M. Chauvet, when he had heard Burnley’s and Lefarge’s reports. “I sent a man up to that pump manufactory and he found out enough to substantiate entirely Boirac’s statement of the hours at which he arrived there and left on the night of the accident. There is also a despatch from Scotland Yard. On receipt of Mr. Burnley’s wire immediate inquiries were made abou…