The "Hotel Tessier" has
gone to Cloudland with the other "chateaux en Espagne"--the two
payments are lost! Jules rages at knowing that even the savings
of murdered Marie are lost to him. Even if found, they cannot be
his by law. The ruffians who robbed him of everything, have left
no trace.
The two weeks passed tossing on a hospital bed, have been lost to
the police. Dimly Jules remembers the sudden assault. Crashing
blows raining down upon him! Not a scrap of paper is left. The
fatal letter to Leroyne & Co. is gone.
The police question the artful Jules.
He holds the secret of Leroyne & Co. to himself.
He may yet get a handsome bribe to tell even the meagre facts he
knows. Marie Berard's case is one of the reigning sensations. Her
lips are now sealed in death.
The baffled police only see in the visit to the "bal de minuit,"
a bourgeois intrigue of ordinary character.
Jules dares not tell all. He fears the stern French law. Tossing
on his bed of pain, his only course is to secretly visit Leroyne
& Co.
The bereaved lover feels that the parties who followed him, were
directed by some malign agency which is fraught with future danger
for him.
The poniard of darkness may reach his heart, if he betrays his
designs.
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