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M. d'Avranchel had already resumed his seat at the table, and was again busy with his papers. "You may retire," he said. "You will be notified if I need you." Maxence felt much discouraged when he joined M. de Tregars at the entrance of the gallery. "The judge is convinced of M. de Thaller's entire innocence," he said.
Favoral, under penalty of the law, to appear the next day, at one o'clock precisely, before the examining judge, Barban d'Avranchel, at his office in the Palace of Justice. The poor woman came near fainting. "What can this judge want with me? It ought to be forbidden to call a wife to testify against her husband," she said. "M. de Tregars will tell you what to answer, mamma," said Mlle. Gilberte.
M. de Tregars guided Maxence through the labyrinth of corridors of the building, until he came to a long gallery, at the entrance of which an usher was seated reading a newspaper. "M. Barban d'Avranchel?" inquired M. de Tregars. "He is in his office," replied the usher. "Please ask him if he would receive an important deposition in the Favoral case."
"M. d'Avranchel will receive you," he said. And, leading Maxence to the extremity of the gallery, he opened a small door, and pushed him in, saying at the same time, "That is it, sir: walk in." It was a small room, with a low ceiling, and poorly furnished.
"Because I wished the fact known to you of the money having been offered and refused." M. Barban d'Avranchel was quietly stroking his whiskers, once of a bright red, but now almost entirely white. "Is this an insinuation against the manager of the Mutual Credit?" he asked. Maxence looked straight at him; and, in a tone which affirmed precisely the reverse, "I accuse no one," he said.
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