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A stranger, M. Folgat, for instance, would have heard him silently, and would have seen in the revelation nothing but the fact without giving it a personal value. In M. Magloire, on the contrary, he saw what the whole country would feel. And M. Magloire, when he heard him declare that the Countess Claudieuse had been his mistress, looked indignant, and exclaimed, "That is impossible."
M. Galpin was dumfounded. "It is enough to make one mad," he murmured. "Do you begin to see how that M. Folgat was right when he said the case was far from being so clear as you pretended?" "Ah! who would not have been deceived as I was? You yourself, at one time at least, were of my opinion. And yet, if the Countess Claudieuse and M. de Boiscoran are both innocent, who is the guilty one?"
Furniture, carpets, all was new; and Goudar and M. Folgat in vain explored the four rooms down stairs, and the four rooms up stairs, the basement, where the kitchen was, and finally the garret. "We shall find nothing here," declared the detective. "To satisfy my conscience, I shall come and spend an afternoon here; but now we have more important business. Let us go and see the neighbors!"
"We will get him out of it," said the doctor cheerfully, as he helped the old gentleman into the carriage. But in vain did he try, during the drive, to rouse, as he called it, the spirits of his companions. His hopes found no echo in their distressed hearts. M. Folgat inquired after Dionysia, whom he had been surprised not to see at the station.
"Sir," added M. Folgat, "it is precisely for the purpose of hearing what has happened that we come to you." "Very well," said M. Seneschal.
Dionysia would have liked to embrace the doctor for these words of his; and with the greatest eagerness she pushed a large easy-chair towards him, and said in her sweetest voice, "Pray sit down, my dear doctor." "Thanks," he answered bruskly. "I am very much obliged to you." Then turning to M. Folgat, he said, according to his odd notion,
Put your legs into active motion, my dear Mechinet, and run and ask M. Folgat to come here. I will wait for him here." When Dionysia, after leaving the Countess Claudieuse, came back to Jacques's parents and his friends, she said, radiant with hope, "Now victory is on our side!"
"Yes; but Miss Dionysia is as ignorant as a holy angel," broke in M. Folgat eagerly, "and she loves M. de Boiscoran. Why should we trouble the purity of her thoughts and her happiness? Is she not unhappy enough? M. de Boiscoran is no longer kept in close confinement. He will see his betrothed, and, if he thinks proper, he can tell her. He alone has the right to do so.
"Take the counsel to the prisoner Boiscoran," said M. Galpin dryly, fearing, perhaps, that M. Daubigeon might regale the public with all the bitter epigrams with which he persecuted him privately. The jailer bowed to the ground, and obeyed the order; but, as soon as he was alone with M. Folgat in the porch of the building, he blew up his cheek, and then tapped it, saying, "Cheated all around."
But then, you know, cases are like books: they have their luck or ill luck. Jacques will be well defended." "I am not afraid of M. Magloire." "But Mr. Folgat?" "A young man with no weight. I should be far more afraid of M. Lachant." "Do you know the plan of the defence?" This was evidently the place where the shoe pinched; but M. Galpin took care not to let it be seen, and replied, "I do not.
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