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<p>“I’m on,” answered Burnley, “but I don’t want to stay more than an hour or so. I can always work better on plenty of sleep.”</p>
<p>“Right,” returned Lefarge, and, calling a taxi, the two friends were driven to the famous music-hall.</p>
<p>Lefarge called for Burnley the next morning at the latter’s hotel, and they made their way to the superintendent’s office at the Gare <abbr>St.</abbr> Lazare.</p>
<p>“Well, gentlemen,” said their friend of the previous afternoon, motioning them to be seated, “I think I’ve got the information you want.” He took up some papers. “I have here the receipt of the Southampton boat people for what we may call number one cask, which was handed them on the arrival of the 7:47 from this station on the night of the 30th <abbr class="eoc">ult.</abbr> Here,” he took up a similar paper, “I have the receipt of the <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">I.</abbr> and <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">C.</abbr> Steam Navigation <abbr>Co.</abbr> at Rouen for cask number two, which left here by goods train on the 1st <abbr>inst.</abbr>, and was got on board on the 3rd. Finally, our agent at the Goods Station at the rue Cardinet informs me he has found the porters who assisted to unload this number two cask when it arrived. You can see them by going down there now.”</p>
<p>“Well, gentlemen,” said their friend of the previous afternoon, motioning them to be seated, “I think I’ve got the information you want.” He took up some papers. “I have here the receipt of the Southampton boat people for what we may call number one cask, which was handed them on the arrival of the 7:47 from this station on the night of the 30th <abbr class="eoc">ult.</abbr> Here,” he took up a similar paper, “I have the receipt of the <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">I.</abbr> and <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">C.</abbr> Steam Navigation <abbr>Co.</abbr> at Rouen for cask number two, which left here by goods train on the 1st <abbr xml:lang="la">inst.</abbr>, and was got on board on the 3rd. Finally, our agent at the Goods Station at the rue Cardinet informs me he has found the porters who assisted to unload this number two cask when it arrived. You can see them by going down there now.”</p>
<p>“I can hardly find words to thank you, sir,” said Lefarge, “your help has been of the utmost value.”</p>
<p>“Delighted, I am sure.”</p>
<p>They parted with mutual compliments, and the detectives took a Ceinture train to Batignoles, and walked down the rue Cardinet to the vast goods station.</p>
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<p>For a considerable time he pondered the question of advertising his circular in the press. At last he decided he could not do so, as if Boirac saw it he would doubtless take precautions to prevent the truth becoming known. La Touche therefore returned to the office of the Business Supplies Company and instructed them to send his circular to each of the thousands of employers in the selected trades, they tabulating the replies and giving him the summary. Though he was by no means sanguine of the success of this move, he felt it offered a chance.</p>
<p>For the next three evenings La Touche and the porters had a busy time. White-haired carters turned up at the Hôtel d’Arles literally in dozens, till the management threatened an ejectment and talked of a claim for fresh carpets. But all was fruitless. The man they wanted did not appear.</p>
<p>On the third day, amongst other letters sent on from the Business Supplies Company, was one which immediately interested La Touche.</p>
<p>“In reply to your circular letter of the 18th <abbr>inst.</abbr>,” wrote <abbr>Messrs.</abbr> Corot, Fils, of the rue de Rivoli, “we have a man in our employment who, at the end of March, answered your description. His name is Jean Dubois, of 18b rue de Falaise, near Les Halles. About that time, however, he ceased shaving and has now grown a beard and moustache. We have asked him to call with you.”</p>
<p>“In reply to your circular letter of the 18th <abbr xml:lang="la">inst.</abbr>,” wrote <abbr>Messrs.</abbr> Corot, Fils, of the rue de Rivoli, “we have a man in our employment who, at the end of March, answered your description. His name is Jean Dubois, of 18b rue de Falaise, near Les Halles. About that time, however, he ceased shaving and has now grown a beard and moustache. We have asked him to call with you.”</p>
<p>Was it, thought La Touche, merely a coincidence that this clean-shaven carter should begin to grow a beard immediately after the delivery of the cask? When two more days passed and the man did not turn up, La Touche determined to call on him.</p>
<p>Accordingly the next evening he arranged for Mallet and one of the porters to deal with the men at the Hôtel d’Arles, while he himself in company with the other set out to find Dubois. The rue de Falaise turned out to be a narrow, dirty street of high, sombre buildings, with the word slum writ large across their grimy frontages. At 18b, La Touche ascended and knocked at a ramshackle door on a dark stone landing. It was opened by a slatternly woman, who stood, silently waiting for him to speak, in the gloom of the threshold. La Touche addressed her with his usual suavity.</p>
<p>“Good evening, madame. Is this where <abbr>M.</abbr> Jean Dubois of <abbr>Messrs.</abbr> Corot, Fils lives?”</p>
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