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The mayor began to give him the details, but he said, "Don't trouble yourself. I know all you know. I met the peasant who had been sent in, and I have examined him." Then, turning to the commonwealth attorney, he added, "I think we ought to proceed at once to the place where the crime has been committed." "I was going to suggest it to you," replied M. Daubigeon.
Since his return from Boiscoran, he had kept close in his house; and he had just made up his mind not to leave the house that day, when some one rang his bell furiously. A moment later Dr. Seignebos fell into the room like a bombshell. "I know what brings you, doctor," said M. Daubigeon. "You come about that order I have given concerning Cocoleu." "Yes, indeed, sir! That order is an insult."
A terrible spasm betrayed M. de Boiscoran's fury; but he checked himself, and said, "My passion was less fiery than it may have looked. I have the most profound respect for the count's character. It is an additional grief to me that he should have accused me." "But he has not accused you!" broke in M. Daubigeon. "On the contrary, he was the first and the most eager to defend you."
"Keep up, my friends!" said the mayor as he passed them, "keep up!" Three minutes farther on, a peasant on horseback appeared in the dark, riding along like a forlorn knight in a romance. M. Daubigeon ordered him to halt. He stopped. "You come from Valpinson?" asked M. Seneschal. "Yes," replied the peasant. "How is the count?" "He has come to at last." "What does the doctor say?"
Chanzy had rewarded him, when wounded, with the cross of the legion of honor. "And such a man should have committed such a crime at Valpinson," said M. Daubigeon to the magistrate. "No, it is impossible! And no doubt he will very easily scatter all our doubts to the four winds." "And that will be done at once," said young Ribot; "for here we are."
M. Daubigeon spoke first to the lady superior of the hospital; and, when he had explained to her what their purpose was in coming there, she raised her eyes heavenward, and said with a sigh of resignation, "Well, gentlemen, do as you like, and I hope you will be successful; for it is a sore trial for us poor sisters to have these continual visitations in the name of the law."
The outer door was open. I went out; and there, some five or six yards from me, I saw, by the light of the flames, the body of my husband lying on the ground. I threw myself upon him; but he did not even hear me; his heart had ceased to beat. I thought he was dead; I called for help; I was in despair." M. Seneschal and M. Daubigeon trembled with excitement.
But M. Galpin's ambition was not easily discouraged, and lately after a journey to Paris, he had thrown out hints at a great match, which would shortly procure him that influence in high places which so far he had been unable to obtain. When he joined M. Daubigeon and the mayor, he said, "Well, this is a horrible affair! It will make a tremendous noise."
"You may rest assured, reverend father," said M. Daubigeon, "that Count Claudieuse's last wishes shall be attended to. The name of the countess shall not appear. There will be no need for it. The secret of her wrongs shall be religiously kept by those who know it." It was four o'clock now.
Seignebos, the priest from Brechy, M. Seneschal, M. Daubigeon." "How did he spend his evenings?" "At M. de Chandore's, who can tell you all about it." "He had no other relatives in this country?" "No." "You do not know that he had any lady friend?" Anthony looked as if he would have blushed. "Oh, sir!" he said, "you do not know, I presume, that master is engaged to Miss Dionysia?"
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