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"Look here, Grady," said Godfrey, more kindly, "I haven't anything against you personally, and I admit that it was foolish of me to stand there talking to Crochard and never suspect who he was. But that's all beside the mark. You're at the head of the detective bureau, and you're the man who is responsible for all this.
One was told that he had been sentenced for having stabbed one of his companions while drunk; another, that it was for a row in a drinking-saloon; and a third, that he was innocently involved with others in an attempt to rob a foreigner. "The prosecution is, therefore, entitled to conclude fairly that Crochard was sentenced simply as a thief.
And he read thus, "Sir, A sailor, who has come over to Boen-Hoa, where I live with my wife, has told us that a certain Crochard, surnamed Bagnolet, has shot, and perhaps mortally wounded, Lieut. Champcey of the ship 'Conquest. "In connection with this misfortune, my wife thinks, and I also consider it a matter of conscience, that we should make known to you a very serious matter.
"Now I have squared accounts with hell, and had some pleasure for my money," said the Count in a deep voice, pointing out the indescribable physiognomy of the gaping scavenger to the doctor, who stood stupefied. "As for Caroline Crochard! she may die of hunger and thirst, hearing the heartrending shrieks of her starving children, and convinced of the baseness of the man she loves.
But before getting into it, they playfully took hands and ran together down the dark avenue in front of Madame Crochard. When they could no longer see the white net cap, which showed as a speck through the leaves where the old woman was "Caroline!" said Roger in a tremulous voice, and with a beating heart.
"That Crochard is after the diamonds. They went back on La Bretagne, I suppose?" "Yes and Pigot went with them. So why should I warn any one? Surely they know that Crochard will get those diamonds if he can. It has become a sort of point of honour with him, I imagine. It is up to them to take care of them." "That oughtn't to be difficult," I said.
"For two weeks we heard nothing then came the story of this man Drouet, killed by a stab on the hand. At once we recognised the work of Crochard, for he alone of living men possesses the secret of the poison of the Medici. It is a fearful secret, which, in his whole life, he had used but once and that upon a man who had betrayed him." M. Pigot paused and passed his hand across his forehead.
Its distillation was supposed to be one of the lost arts, but the secret was rediscovered by this man Crochard. No secret, indeed, is safe from him; criminal history, criminal memoirs the mysteries and achievements of the great confederacy of crime which has existed for many centuries, and whose existence few persons even suspect all this is to him an open book.
"What do you say about the cabinet?" "I suppose there is no doubt that Crochard bought it," I said. "So that it is mine now?" "Yes; but I'm going to solicit a bribe." "Go ahead and solicit it." "I want a souvenir, too," I said. "I'd like awfully well to have that letter besides," I added, "it will be a kind of receipt, you know, if anybody ever questions my giving you the cabinet."
He took from the large bundle of papers a single sheet, and, assuming an air of great modesty, read the affidavit. "Magistrate. At what point of the river did Crochard swim across? "Witness. A little below the town. "M. Where did he undress? "W. At the place where he went into the water, just opposite the tile-factory of M. Wang-Tai. "M. What did he do with his clothes? Nothing.
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