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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Those letters accuse Gaston Sauverand as well. But how does that affect things? He no longer loves Marie, but Florence. And Florence loves him. She is his accomplice, his counsellor, the woman who will live by his side and benefit by his fortune.... True, she sometimes pretends to be defending Marie Fauville. Play-acting!
"Inspector Vérot told M. Desmalions's secretary that the two murders would take place to-night. He said it was fatal and irrevocable." "To-night?" cried Fauville angrily. "I tell you no! Not to-night. I'm sure of that. There are things which I know, aren't there, which you do not?" "Yes," retorted Don Luis, "but there may also be things which Inspector Vérot knew and which you don't know.
And, nevertheless, one after the other, with inflexible regularity, as if they had been struck down in the very order called for by the terms of the Mornington inheritance, they all disappeared: Cosmo Mornington, then Hippolyte Fauville, then Edmond Fauville, then Marie Fauville, then Gaston Sauverand.
Then, consumed with fury and helpless, he awaited the deputy's coming. A crash came from below; its echo spread through the tunnel, followed by a tumult of voices. "That's it," he said to himself. "The handcuffs, the lockup, the cell! Good Lord, what luck and what nonsense! And Marie Fauville, who's sure to do away with herself. And Florence Florence "
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 "
Can you see M. Fauville working at his automatic machine, putting in with his own hands letters which he has taken the pains to write to a friend three months before and intercept, arranging events so that his wife shall appear guilty and saying, 'There! If I die murdered, I'm easy in my mind: the person to be arrested will be Marie!
But, given the fact that it was found in the ceiling of this room, given the fact that it contained letters written by M. Fauville, am I not entitled to say that it was constructed by M. Fauville, the electrical engineer?" Once more the name of M. Fauville returned, like an obsession; and each time the name stood more clearly defined.
"Still, it is probable that he came here yesterday, during the day." "I can't say," replied the servant. "M. Fauville used to receive many visitors through the garden and let them in himself." "You have no more evidence to give?" "No." "Please tell Mme. Fauville that Monsieur le Préfet would be very much obliged if he could have a word with her." Silvestre left the room.
At the same time, I will send for the examining magistrate; and the case against her is sure to be dismissed at once." He swiftly gave orders for continuing the investigations and verifying Don Luis's theories. Then, turning to Perenna: "Come, Monsieur," he said. "It is right that Mme. Fauville should thank her rescuer. Mazeroux, you come, too."
"But in the case of Hippolyte Fauville, whose good will he had secured through his acquaintance with old Langernault, and over whose mind he soon obtained an extraordinary influence, he had a greater difficulty to contend with.
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