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Or was she acting the emotions which the revelation of those facts would produce in her under natural conditions? Don Luis observed M. Desmalions even more narrowly than he did the girl, and tried to read the secret thoughts of the man with whom the decision lay.
When you know the secret of the letters, the truth is much nearer than you think; and you would have already named the criminal if the horror of his crime had not been so great as to divert all suspicion from him." M. Desmalions looked at him attentively. He felt the importance of Perenna's every word and he was really anxious.
The Prefect of Police turned to the solicitor and asked: "Have I summed up the facts correctly, Maître Lepertuis?" "Absolutely, Monsieur le Préfet." M. Desmalions continued: "The next morning, Maître Lepertuis called here and, for reasons which you will understand when you have heard the document read, showed me Cosmo Mornington's will, which had been placed in his hands."
They had all seen what they now saw almost as soon as he spoke. A letter was descending from the ceiling. It spun round slowly, like a leaf falling from a tree without being driven by the wind. It just touched Don Luis and alighted on the floor between two legs of the table. Picking up the paper and handing it to M. Desmalions, Don Luis said: "There you are, Monsieur le Préfet.
Was it the same pair of jaws that had left its impress in the pulp of the fruit? Mazeroux returned. M. Desmalions moved briskly toward the sergeant, who showed him the apple which he had found under the ivy. And Perenna at once realized the supreme importance which the Prefect of Police attached to Mazeroux's explanations and to his unexpected discovery.
He went to the dining-room and sat down, placing on the table the photograph which M. Desmalions had left behind; and, bending over it, he examined it attentively. It was a little faded, a little worn, as photographs have a tendency to become when they lie about in pocket-books or among papers; but the picture was quite clear.
Perenna listened with surprise: he had utterly forgotten this particular; and Gaston Sauverand had made no reference to it in his narrative. And yet it was a strange and serious detail. From whom had Florence received that list of dates? "And what's on the other two sheets?" asked M. Desmalions. Don Luis pricked up his ears.
M. Desmalions remained thinking for a time and then objected: "Still, in the letters which he wrote, M. Fauville accuses his wife." "He does." "We must therefore admit either that he was right in accusing her or that the letters are forged?" "They are not forged. All the experts have recognized M. Fauville's handwriting." "Then?" "Then "
He did not even bow to Don Luis; and the magistrates who accompanied him might have thought that Don Luis was merely an assistant of Sergeant Mazeroux, if the chief detective had not made it his business to tell them, in a few words, the part played by the stranger. M. Desmalions briefly examined the two corpses and received a rapid explanation from Mazeroux.
"There you are, Monsieur," she said. M. Desmalions turned to the examining magistrate. "Have you the apple found in the garden?" "Here, Monsieur le Préfet." M. Desmalions put the two apples side by side. And those who crowded round him, anxiously looking on, all uttered one exclamation. The two marks of teeth were identical. Identical!
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