in bed all the day and be out all the night at other times he would stay at home the whole of the twenty four hours but he always paid his rent regularly and gave little trouble over his food yes added mrs her apron mr was always a gentleman i will say that thought steel taking all this in eagerly a queer kind of gentleman he added aloud did you know anything else about him mrs no sir she drew herself up i never � never did any one call to see mr no one all the time he was here not one person called did he receive any letters no not one letter arrived queer murmured steel what newspaper did he take the morning post also he took the world truth modern society and m a p he was fond of the fashionable intelligence oh he was was he would you have called him a gentleman he always paid his rent duly hesitated mrs so far he was a perfect gentleman but i have lived as a lady s maid in the best families sir and i don t think mr was what you or i would call an i see so you were a lady s maid once in what families mrs was not at all averse to relating her better days and did so with pride i was with the of flint with mrs and with lady a strange discovery ha v said steel starting he remembered that had been concerned with lady about the robbery of her jewels did you tell mr this he asked oh yes we had long talks about aristocratic families she repeated several tales she had told and steel asked her many questions when he took his leave he asked a leading one did mr wear a red cross as an ornament on his watch chain he did said mrs and steel departed very satisfied with his day s work chapter x on a fresh trail if ware had not been desperately in love and desperately anxious to find anne he would scarcely have gone to paris on such a wild goose chase the on the letter showed that she was or she had been in the french capital but to find her in that immense city was like looking for a in a desert however ware had an idea � foolish enough � that some instinct would guide him to her side and therefore as soon as he recovered sufficiently to travel he crossed the channel with trim he left about three weeks after his interview with time enough as he well knew for anne to change her place of residence but he trusted to luck for quite a fortnight he the city accompanied by the faithful old servant trim had sharp eyes and would be certain to recognize anne if she came within but in spite of their vigilance and observation the two saw no one even resembling anne certainly if had gone to the authorities who take note of all who come and go he might have been more successful but knowing that anne was wanted by the english police he did not dare to adopt this method he on a fresh trail was forced to rely entirely on himself and his search resulted in nothing it ain t no good master said trim for at least the tenth time we ve lost the scent somehow better go back to london i don t want you to be ill over here sir with nothing but foreign doctors to look after you i shan t leave paris until i am certain that she is not in the place declared ware resolutely well sir i don t know how much more certain you wants to be we ve them and till our feet are near dropping off you re looking a shadow master if you ll excuse an old man as nursed you when you were a baby she ain t here now i shouldn t be surprised if she were in london said trim wisely what in the very jaws of the lion nonsense oh but is it sir i always heard it said by them as knows that the jaws of the lion is the very last place any one expects to find them trim did not state what them he meant if she went back to she would be safe especially if she laid up in some cottage and called herself a trim you ve been reading novels not me sir i ain t got no time but about this going back we ll go back to morrow trim said ware with sudden resolution and trim joyfully departed to pack it just struck that after all trim might be right and that having thrown the police off the scent by going abroad in the anne might return to london she might be there now living in some quiet while the police were wasting their time corresponding with the french authorities moreover ware thought it would be just as well to learn what steel was doing he had a coin of edward vii charge of the case and might have struck the trail in that case wanted to know for he could then any possible danger from anne and finally he reflected that he might learn something about anne s friends from the people at the where mrs had engaged her if she returned to london it was not impossible that she might have gone to hide in the house of some friend any one who knew anne could be certain that she was not guilty of the crime she was accused of and would assuredly aid her to escape the unjust law so thought in his but he quite forgot that every one was not in love with anne and would help her unless they were fully convinced of her innocence and perhaps not even then most 