Grimm agreed.
"That is a statement of fact," Miss Thorne added. "My card, which you
will find at your office, will show that. And when I left your office I
went to the hotel where you live, with the same purpose. You were not
there, and I left a card for you. And _that_ is a statement of fact. It
was not difficult, owing to the extraordinary circumstances, to imagine
that you would be here to-night--just as you are--and I came here. My
purpose, still, was to inform you of what I knew, and work with you.
Does that convince you?"
"And how did you enter the embassy?" Mr. Grimm persisted.
"Not with a latch-key, as you did," she replied. "Madame Boissegur, at
my suggestion, left the French window in the hall there unfastened, and
I came in that way--the way, I may add, that _Monsieur l'Ambassadeur_
went out when he disappeared."
"Very well!" commented Mr. Grimm, and finally: "I think, perhaps, I owe
you an apology, Miss Thorne--another one. The circumstances now, as
they were at our previous meetings, are so unusual that--is it necessary
to go on?" There was a certain growing deference in his tone.
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