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Updated: June 26, 2025
Let Count Miossens go to the Conciergerie, be confronted with Olivier, and recognise him as the person who carried off Cardillac's body; let him then go to La Regnie, and say, 'I saw a man stabbed in the Rue St. Honoré, and was close to the body when another man darted up, bent down over it, and finding life still in it, took it on his shoulders and carried it away.
There was a line-out, a Cambridge man had the ball and fell, Cambridge dribbled past the ball to the half, the ball was in Cardillac's hands. Let this be ever to Cardillac's honour! Fame of a lifetime might have been his, the way was almost clear before him he passed back to Olva. The moment had come. The crowd fell first into a breathless silence, then screamed with excitement "Dune's got it.
Although much was to be gathered from what the Marechaussée had said, still Cardillac's crimes, their motive, and the manner in which he carried them out, were a riddle to me. The solution of it soon came. One day Cardillac who usually excited my horror by laughing and jesting during our work, in the highest of spirits was very grave and thoughtful.
There's nothing the matter with the man." Cardillac's voice was amused. "Well, Dune, I daresay we can get on without you," he said. Lawrence said slowly, "Well, I don't know. P'raps it's mean on the man. I want a drink. I don't think I'm havin' any to-night, Cards." Cardillac was sharper. "Oh, nonsense, Lawrence, come along. It doesn't do the man any harm."
There was no question of Cardillac's sincerity. Craven was sitting four places lower down; he had turned the other way and was talking eagerly to some man on his farther side but the eyes that had met Olva's two minutes before had been hostile. Cardillac went on: "Come in to coffee afterwards, Dune; several men are coming in." Olva thanked him and said that he would.
Out of consideration for the nameless misery which a disclosure of the secret would bring upon Madelon, I knew that you would keep it, but that your grand and brilliant intellect would have been sure to find means to put an end to Cardillac's wickedness without disclosing it. Do not ask me what those means were to have been; I cannot tell.
Many persons, amongst those most highly considered by the King and nation, had in vain offered large sums for the smallest specimen of Cardillac's work.
Afterwards, in Cardillac's handsome and over-careful rooms, there was an attempt at depth. The set Lawrence, Galleon, Craven and five or six more never thought about Life unless drink drove them to do so, and drink drove them to-night.
Many whose names occurred in Cardillac's list as having been merely stunned, not murdered, came from time to time to d'Andilly to reclaim their property, and received it back, to their no small surprise. The remainder became the property of the Church of St. Eustache." Sylvester's tale was received by the Brethren with their full approval.
I shudder at the thought of the blood which seems to cling to those glittering stones and even Cardillac's behaviour had something about it which struck me as being singularly wild and eery.
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