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They want and require proof, positive proof, before they condemn. Well, such proof I have." "Oh!" From the same box from which he had taken the papers concerning Crochard he now drew a letter, which he shook in the air with a threatening gesture. "Here is something," he said, "which was sent to the state attorney twelve days after the last attempt had been made on M. Champcey's life. Listen!"
He would never have dared to abuse Miss Ville- Handry's confidence in so infamous a manner, if he had not been persuaded, in fact been quite sure, that Lieut. Champcey would never return to France." Then, after a few minutes' reflection, he added, "And yet I feel that there is something underneath still, which we do not see. Why had they determined upon M. Champcey's death even before he sailed?
But the magistrate had too great an abundance of evidence to allow the examination to continue. He said simply, "Who, then, threw, during the voyage, an enormous block at M. Champcey's head? Come, don't deny it. The emigrant who was near you, who saw you, and who promised he would not report you at that time, has spoken. Do you want to see him?"
"No; but it is the only one he has opened." "Would you object to handing me the others?" The excellent doctor hesitated. "I will hand them to you," he said at last, "if you will assure me that the interests of justice require it. But why not wait" He did not dare say, "Why not wait for M. Champcey's death?" but the lawyer understood him. "I will wait," he said.
But Papa Ravinet shook his head, looking very wise, and said, "That is one explanation. I do not say no to it; but it is not the true one yet. Murder is so dangerous an expedient, that even the boldest criminals only resort to it in the last extremity, and generally very much against their inclination. Could not Brevan have possessed himself of M. Champcey's property without a murder?
Unfortunately one obstacle had risen between them from the beginning, Pauline's poverty. It could not be expected that those keen, thrifty peasants, Champcey's father and mother, would ever permit one of their sons they had two to commit the folly of making a love-match. They had worked hard for their children.
"As to that," he resumed his account, "you see Chevassat explained to me everything at breakfast; and the very same day he gave me the address which you found on the paper in which the bank-notes were wrapped up." "What did he give you M. Champcey's address for?" "So that I might know him personally." "Well, go on."
And, when he has served his term, he will receive the price of Champcey's life, and he will spend it in orgies; and the others, the true criminals, who have hired him, will go about the world with lofty pride, rich, honored, and haughty." "Doctor!" But the old original was not to be stopped. He went on, "Ah, let me alone! Your human justice, do you want me to tell you what I think of it?
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