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��That explains why he has made no attempt to see Felix since his arrest,�� said the lawyer to himself, as he turned away and hailed a taxi with the idea of a call on the charwoman.

��Right,�� returned Lefarge, and, calling a taxi, the two friends were driven to the famous music-hall.

��An excellent idea. I am sure it is much appreciated. But there was an unfortunate mistake about the message he sent me. It was making an appointment, and he did not turn up. I am afraid I misunderstood what he said. Could you hear the message? Perhaps, if so, you would tell me if he spoke of an appointment on last Tuesday?��

��That also, by the way, seems to show the deed was not done by Boirac that night,�� the Chief went on. ��Your point is that he killed his wife because she had run away with Felix. But if he came home and found her there, she obviously hadn��t run away. Hence the motive, for that night at least, falls to the ground.��

��We walked about for more than three hours till it was near five o��clock, an�� then we ��ad some more beer, an�� when we came out o�� the bar we stood at the corner o�� two streets an�� thought wot we��d do next. An�� then suddenly Ginger lurched up against me, an�� I drove fair into an old woman that was passing, an�� nearly knocked ��er over. I caught ��er to keep ��er from falling��I couldn��t do no less��but when I looked round, I��m blessed if Ginger wasn��t gone. I ran down one street first, an�� then down the other, an�� then I went back into the bar, but never a sight of ��im did I get. I cursed myself for every kind of a fool, an�� then I thought I��d better go back an�� tell Mr. Avery anyway. So I went to Fenchurch Street, an�� Mr. Broughton brought me along ��ere.��

��Yes, monsieur.��

The only way in which he could ensure finding his hypothetical carter would be to send a circular to every employer in Paris. But that was too large an order.

��I admit the evidence is far from conclusive, though it might be said in answer to your first point about the re-addressing of the cask in Paris, that such would involve a confederate here. In any case it seemed to both our Chief and myself that Paris should be our first point of inquiry.��

��Extraordinary!�� he cried, ��but here is a mystery! I never wrote, or sent, or had any knowledge of such a letter. It��s not only a forgery, but it��s a pure invention. There��s not a word of truth in that story of the bet and the cask from beginning to end. Tell me something more about it. Where did you get it?��

��Yes, and to me it seems a quite sound deduction. Now, if that is true, it follows that if Boirac killed his wife, he must have travelled here to do it.��

The girl shook her head.

��I felt wakeful, and thought a stroll would be pleasant. I walked across Paris; to the Place de la Bastille by the rue de Rivoli, and back to the hotel by the Grands Boulevards.��

There being nothing to keep him in Glasgow, the Inspector returned to the Central and took the midday London express. As it thundered southwards across the smiling country, he thought over the interview he had just had. He could not help marvelling again at the luck that had pursued his efforts ever since the inquiry began. Nearly every one he had interviewed had known at least something, if not always exactly what he wanted. He thought how many thousands of persons crossed the Channel each week whose journey it would be absolutely impossible to trace, and here, in the one instance that mattered, he had found a man who had been able to give him the very information he needed. Had Felix not gone in the bus, had Mr. Gordon not been so observant, had the circumstances not fallen out precisely as they did, he might never have ascertained the knowledge of Felix��s movements that day. And the same applied all through. Truly, if he did not get a complete case it would be his own fault.