human
You believe it was the assassin himself who met you?
gpt
Don't you?
human
I'm not sure. You think his motive was to get the woman's address?
gpt
Isn't that reasonable?
human
He wouldn't have risked so much for that. How did he know that you hadn't copied the name and given it to one of us--say to me?
gpt
Ah, if I only had,
human
How did he know that you wouldn't remember the name? Can't you remember it--at all?
gpt
That's what I've been trying to do, replied the other gloomily,
human
I've tried and tried, but the name won't come back. I put those pieces together and read the words distinctly, the name and the address. It was a foreign name, English I should say, and the street was an avenue near the Champs Elysées, the Avenue d'Eylau, or the Avenue d'Iena, I cannot be sure. I didn't fix the thing in my mind because I had it in my pocket, and in the work of the night it faded away.
gpt
A great pity! Still, this man could neither have known that nor guessed it. He took the address from you on a chance, but his chief purpose must have been to impress you with his knowledge and his power.
human
How did he know the name of that infernal canary bird?
gpt
He has established some very complete system of surveillance that we must try to circumvent. For the moment we had better decide upon immediate steps.