"Perhaps one of your servants can give the necessary
information," replied the urbane official. If I had lost an
umbrella he could not have viewed my plight with more inhuman
blandness!
A miracle happened. As I was writing a summons to Stenson to
obtain these details from Antoinette and attend at once, a
policeman entered and I learned that my confidential man was at
the door. My heart leapt within me. He had tracked me hither
and had come to tell me that Carlotta was safe. But the first
glance at his face killed the wild hope. He had tracked me
hither, it is true; but only apologetically to offer what
information might be useful.
"It is a very great liberty, Sir Marcus, and I will retire at
once if I have overstepped my duties, but there are important
details, sir, in catastrophes of this nature with which my
experience has taught me only servants can be acquainted."
There must be a book of ten thousand pages entitled "The Perfect
Valet," dealing with every contingency of domestic life which
this admirable fellow has by heart.
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