The Rome Express
e in every case, and were limited in this early
as No. 13 in compartment f. His companion in the berth was a younger man, smaller, slighter, but of much the same stamp. His name was Jules Devaux, and he was a commission agent. His berth had been No. 15 in the
d himself General Sir Charles Collingham, an officer of her Majesty's army; and the clergyman who shared the compartment was his bro
s dismissed, he asked whether
efly. He did not care to be asked questions. T
e to communicate with
ve, not choosing to believe the story at
onel Papillon, the military attaché; we were in the same regiment.
ou propos
t it should be known that my brother and I ar
as you wish. We will telephone from here to the p
ferin, and my friend
And now, if you will
; a dark-skinned man, with very black hair and a bristling black moustache. He wore a long dark cloak of the Inverness order, and, w
y after the formal questioning was over, "I
wait to speak till now?" said the detective, receiving the adv
of addressing any one in authority
f of the Detec
an give some useful information when called
proach the inquiry without pre
ge arrives, then, perhaps; at any rate, at
on of contempt at the French detective's method
g cloak, and closely veiled. She answered M. Flo?on's quest
sband had been an Italian, as the name implied, and they resided in Rome. He was d
ou," said the detective, polit
voice became appealing, almost piteous. Her hands, r
until we have gone further into this, have elicited some facts, arrive
in London. I do hope-I most earnestly beg and entreat you to spare me. I am not
he good-will of one of the opposite sex. She had a handsome face-strikingly so. Not even the long journ
strous as pure ivory. Her great eyes, of a deep velvety brown, were saddened by near tears. She had rich red
on was a Frenchman, gallant and impressionable; yet he steeled his heart. A detective must be
. "I do not make the law; I have only to sup
h to be let off now. I have suffered greatly, terribly, by this horrible catastrophe. My nerves are quite
durate, would not e
least you cannot be allowed to communicat
; she was not in the car.
ted M. Flo?on,
o undress, and saw me to bed. I sent her away then, and said I should
come to you
side of the table,-"he made difficulties about her being in the car, saying that she came too often, stayed
rom time
cise
t time was a
ou, and he will t
Chief rose from his chair, plainly inti