It was about five minutes of twelve o'clock--high
noon--when he went out. When he didn't return immediately the
stenographer began transcribing the letters. At one o'clock Monsieur
Boissegur still had not returned and his stenographer went to luncheon."
As he talked some inbred excitement seemed to be growing upon him, due,
perhaps, to his recital of the facts, and he paused at last to regain
control of himself. Incidentally he wondered if Mr. Grimm was taking the
slightest interest in what he was saying. Certainly there was nothing in
his impassive face to indicate it.
"Understand, Monsieur," the secretary continued, after a moment, "that I
knew nothing whatever of all this until late that afternoon--that is,
Tuesday afternoon about five o'clock. I was engaged all day upon some
important work in my own office, and had had no occasion to see Monsieur
Boissegur since a word or so when he came in at ten o'clock. My
attention was called to the affair finally by his stenographer, Monsieur
Netterville, who came to me for instructions. He had finished the
letters and the ambassador had not returned to sign them.
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