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"The robbery," continued du Portail, "was audaciously committed in the daytime; and no sooner did Charles Crochard get possession of the casket than he went to the church of Saint-Sulpice, where he had an appointment with an accomplice, who, being supplied with a passport, was to start immediately with the diamonds for foreign parts.
But when he had signed it, and the gendarmes were about to carry him off again, and to put on the handcuffs, he asked leave to make an addition. The magistrate assented; and Crochard said, "I do not want to excuse myself, nor to make myself out innocent; but I do not like, on the other hand, to seem worse than I am."
'You shall keep your name, he said, touching me on the shoulder. 'You shall always remain Crochard, surnamed Bagnolet; and you shall have your papers as engraver on metal as perfect as anybody can have them. "And, to be sure, the second day after that he gave me a set of papers, signatures, seals, all in perfect order." "The papers found in your room, you mean?" asked the lawyer. "Exactly."
The inquisitive stranger saw a sheet of paper on the table that stood between the two work-frames, and on which stood the lamp and the globes filled with water. He at once identified it as a writ. Madame Crochard was weeping, and Caroline's voice was thick, and had lost its sweet, caressing tone. "Why be so heartbroken, mother?
"I hope you won't disturb it until after Wednesday," said Godfrey, quickly. "I won't have any interest in it after that." "You really think Crochard will try for it Wednesday?" "I really do." I shrugged my shoulders. What was the use of arguing with a man like that?
"Still," he continued, "there is no doubt about the manner in which Crochard, surnamed Bagnolet, was employed. Could Brevan have done so without Sarah's knowledge, and perhaps even contrary to her wishes?" "That is quite possible; but then why should he have done so?" "To secure to himself the fortune which M. Champcey had so imprudently intrusted to him," said Henrietta.
"Yes they gave it to me when I 'phoned in that the Westchester business was a fake. I rushed for the station, though I knew I'd be too late." "But, Godfrey," I said, "I can't understand, even yet, how he did it. Grady and Simmonds left the boat with Pigot and were with him all evening, showing him the sights. How did Crochard get into it? What did he do with Pigot? Where is Pigot?"
Then, after a short pause, during which the two young people stood watching Madame Crochard, who had got to the middle of the rustic bridge, and was shaking her finger at them, Caroline went on: "Oh yes, she has been so good to me. What care she took of me when I was little! She sold her last silver forks to apprentice me to the old maid who taught me to embroider. And my poor father!
He certainly needed it; but how could he sleep with the fearful idea of his Henrietta she whom he loved with his whole heart being in the hands of this Justin Chevassat, a forger, a former galley-slave, the accomplice and friend of Crochard, surnamed Bagnolet? "And I myself handed her over to him!" he repeated for the thousandth time, "I, her only friend upon earth!
The man who devised this mechanism was so proud of it that he described it in a secret memoir for the entertainment of the Grand Louis. There is a copy of that memoir among the archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale; the original is owned by Crochard. It was he who connected that memoir with this cabinet, who rediscovered the mechanism, rewound the spring, and renewed the poison.
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