She never
received visits and never met any one during these daily excursions.
I turned to the report dealing with the Hindu.
He had hired a room high up under the roof of an apartment house where
foreign waiters and others had their abodes. He bought and cooked his
own food, which apparently consisted solely of rice, lentils and fruit.
He went every morning to the garage and attended to the car, called
for his mistress, and having returned remained until evening in his
own apartment. At night, after returning from the theatre, he
sometimes went out, and my agent had failed to keep track of him on
every occasion that he had attempted pursuit. I detached the man who
was watching Casimir and whose excellent reports revealed the fact
that Casimir was an honest fellow--as valets go--and instructed him
to assist in tracing the movements of the Hindu.
Two nights later they tracked him to a riverside cafe kept by a
gigantic quadroon from Dominique and patronized by that type which
forms a link between the lowest commercial and the criminal classes:
itinerant vendors of Eastern rugs, street performers and Turkish
cigarette makers.
At last I began to have hopes. The Grand Duke at this time was
speaking of leaving Paris, but as he had found temporary consolation
in the smiles of a lady engaged at the "Folies" I did not anticipate
that he would depart for several days at any rate. Also he was the
kind of man who is stimulated by obstacles.
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