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But it was in vain that M. Plantat wasted his persuasive eloquence. Robelot shut himself up in a ferocious and dogged silence. M. Gendron, hoping, not without reason, that he might have some influence over his former assistant, spoke: "Answer us; what did you come for?" Robelot made an effort; it was painful, with his broken jaw, to speak. "I came to rob; I confess it." "To rob what?"
My fear of being a burglar drove me into the police." "And you are satisfied with the exchange?" asked Dr. Gendron. "I' faith, Doctor, my first regret is yet to come. I am happy, because I am free to exercise my peculiar faculties with usefulness to my race. Existence has an enormous attraction for me, because I have still a passion which overrides all others curiosity."
M. Gendron also cordially shook the detective's hand, saying: "Permit me to express my admiration of you. I had no idea what the resources of such a man as you were.
He found some benefit from this; but W. Gendron was too severe for him. That physician forbade the petits-soupers and the amusements which usually followed them; this was not agreeable to my son, and those who used to frequent them to their own advantage; they therefore persuaded him to adopt some other remedies which almost deprived him of sight.
He walked up to the owner of the place. "Tell me, my friend, have you, by chance, received a telegram addressed to the Abbé Gendron?" "That is so, Monsieur. It will be for you?"... "Yes, for me. I asked that a message should be sent to me here, if necessary."
How was it that he, the first personage in the place, had been absolutely ignorant of these meetings? His ill-humor was increasing, when Dr. Gendron answered: "Pah! all Corbeil prated about that at the time." M. Plantat made a movement with his lips as if to say, "I know other things besides." He went on, however, with his story.
Perhaps his hearers were casting about for objections. At last Dr. Gendron spoke: "I don't see Guespin's part in all this." "Nor I, very clearly," answered M. Lecoq. "And here I ought to confess to you not only the strength, but the weakness also, of the theory I have adopted.
On the day following Jack's return home there was a long-drawn battle in the mountains between the Federal troops and the guerrillas, which resulted in the killing off of a number of the outlaws, including those who had held our hero a prisoner. In this contest Gendron was also killed, and he died without revealing what he knew of Dr. Mackey's past.
"What seems to me surprising," M. Plantat observed to the judge, "is that anybody would succeed in killing, except in his sleep, a young man so vigorous as Count Hector." "And in a house full of weapons," added Dr. Gendron; "for the count's cabinet is full of guns, swords and hunting knives; it's a perfect arsenal." "Alas!" sighed M. Courtois, "we know of worse catastrophes.
What! can you laugh at the witticisms of a comedian, whom you know to be the struggling father of a family? Can you pity the sad fate of the poor actress who poisons herself, when you know that on going out you will meet her on the boulevards? It's pitiable!" "Let's shut up the theatres," suggested Dr. Gendron. "I am more difficult to please than the public," returned M. Lecoq.
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