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He was silent once more, sat leaning his elbows on the table, visibly preoccupied; then, raising his head, he let fall these words: "The murder was committed before we entered the room, at half-past twelve exactly." "How do you know, Chief?" "M. Fauville's murderer or murderers, in touching the things on the table, knocked down the watch which M. Fauville had placed there.
Just as on the last occasion, there was a letter on the table! When the first moment of stupefaction was over, the deputy chief took the letter. His orders were not to read it and not to let any one else read it. Here is the letter, published by the newspapers, which also published the declarations of the experts certifying that the handwriting was Hippolyte Fauville's: "I have seen him!
Her inexplicable drive in the direction of La Muette and her cousin Sauverand's walk in the neighbourhood of the house: plots! The marks left in the apple by those teeth, by Mme. Fauville's own teeth: a plot and the most infernal of all! "I tell you, everything is plotted beforehand, everything is, so to speak, prepared, measured out, labelled, and numbered.
Fauville's accusation and to foil the trick of the turquoise. But M. Desmalions will never admit that this is a similar attempt and that Gaston Sauverand has tried, as Marie Fauville did, to get me out of the way by compromising me and procuring my arrest." "Well," exclaimed M. Desmalions impatiently, "answer! Defend yourself!" "No, Monsieur le Préfet, it is not for me to defend myself,"
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 "
Knowing on the one hand that the engineer hated his wife and on the other that he was stricken with a fatal disease, he took occasion, after the consultation with the specialist in London, to suggest to Fauville's terrified brain the incredible plan of suicide of which you were subsequently able to trace the Machiavellian execution.
"I can't explain them. We did not know of Fauville's jealousy. He kept it to himself. And then, again, why did he suspect us? What can have put it into his head that we meant to kill him? Where did his fears, his nightmares, come from? It is a mystery. He wrote that he had letters of ours in his possession: what letters?"
At that moment you were mentioning Marie Fauville's name to a number of journalists; and you told them that Marie Fauville was innocent; and you informed them of the evidence which you possessed in Marie's favour! "My hatred ceased then and there, Monsieur. In one second the enemy had become the ally, the master to whom one kneels.
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