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The President turned to Rouletabille as if appealing for an explanation. "We must assume, Monsieur President, that Monsieur Robert Darzac's absences are closely connected with Mademoiselle Stangerson's secret, and that Monsieur Darzac feels himself in honour bound to remain silent.
I had only time to ask him one question before he left. "Are you not afraid that other attempts may be made while you're away?" "No! Not now that Darzac is in prison," he answered. With this strange remark he left. I was not to see him again until the day of Darzac's trial at the court when he appeared to explain the inexplicable.
This morning, at half-past ten o'clock, Mademoiselle Stangerson, in the cleverest way in the world, arranged to have no nurses to-night. Her father, who is to sleep in the boudoir, has gladly consented to the arrangement. Darzac's departure and what he told me, as well as the extraordinary precautions Mademoiselle Stangerson is taking to be alone to-night leaves me no room for doubt.
Monsieur Robert Darzac's footprints are also like the murderer's, and yet he is not the murderer!" The President turning to Madame Mathieu asked: "Is that in accordance with what you know occurred?" "Yes, Monsieur President," she replied, "it is as if Monsieur Rouletabille had been behind us." "Did you see the murderer running towards the end of the right wing?"
He several times expressed his regret at Monsieur Darzac's absence from the chateau on all these occasions, and thought that Monsieur Darzac had done cleverly in allying himself with Monsieur Joseph Rouletabille, who could not fail, sooner or later, to discover the murderer. He spoke the last sentence with unconcealed irony. Then he rose, bowed to us, and left the inn.
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