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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Because I know who the two victims were and what caused them to be killed." Prince Renine was making none but positive statements and his method suggested the belief that he supported by the strongest proofs. M. d'Aigleroche strode up and down the room, with his hands behind his back.
"Proofs?" replied Renine, in a loud voice. "Why, there are any number of proofs; and you know them as well as I do. Who could have killed at that distance of eight hundred yards, except an expert shot, an ardent sportsman? You agree, M. d'Aigleroche, do you not?... Proofs?
"Was it to give himself greater strength to bear this burden that M. d'Aigleroche afterwards married his victim's widow? For that, sir, is the crux of the question. What was the motive of that marriage? Was M. d'Aigleroche penniless? Was the woman he was taking as his second wife rich?
"There is every reason to believe that M. d'Aigleroche was married and that there was another couple living in the neighbourhood with whom the owner of the Domaine de Halingre were on friendly terms. What happened one day, which of these four persons first disturbed the relations between the two households, I am unable to say.
On discovering the intrigue, your cousin d'Aigleroche resolved to be revenged, but in such a manner that there should be no scandal and that no one even should ever know that the guilty pair had been killed.
M. d'Aigleroche gave a start: "Do you know the amount?" "I don't wish to know it." "And if I refuse?..." "I shall ask to see the Comtesse d'Aigleroche." Without further hesitation, the count opened a drawer, produced a document on stamped paper and quickly signed it: "Here you are," he said, "and I hope...." "You hope, as I do, that you and I may never have any future dealings?
"What you mean is that I must have had some object in speaking. That is so. There must indeed be a penalty, however slight, and our interview must lead to some practical result. But have no fear: M. d'Aigleroche will be let off lightly." The contest was ended.
Why was nothing removed from the house, nothing except the guns, those guns which an ardent sportsman cannot afford to leave behind you agree, M. d'Aigleroche those guns which we find here, hanging in trophies on the walls!... Proofs?
Hortense slowly finished dressing, put on a riding-habit, which revealed the lines of her supple figure, and a wide-brimmed felt hat, which encircled her lovely face and auburn hair, and sat down to her writing-desk, at which she wrote to her uncle, M. d'Aigleroche, a farewell letter to be delivered to him that evening.
She now accepted the accusation laid against him. Sixty seconds passed. Then M. d'Aigleroche walked up to them and said: "Whether the story be true or not, you can't call a husband a criminal for avenging his honour and killing his faithless wife." "No," replied Renine, "but I have told only the first version of the story.
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