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At these words, Goguet, the smiling clerk, whose pen was rapidly flying across the paper, could not help remarking to himself: "The arrow has entered the bull's-eye this time!" The comment was not without foundation: for Lecoq was evidently cut to the quick.
She left the room or rather she rushed wildly from it as though only too eager to escape and the magistrate and the detective exchanged glances of dismay and consternation. "I said so before," thought Goguet, "the prisoner knows what he's about. I would be willing to bet a hundred to one in his favor." A French investigating magistrate is possessed of almost unlimited powers.
To this we shall return later, but, as to early Greek star-lore, Goguet, the author of 'L'Origine des Lois, a rather learned but too speculative work of the last century, makes the following characteristic remarks: 'The Greeks received their astronomy from Prometheus.
It is true that the magistrate's penetration may have been due to some notes he had just perused notes containing an abstract of the woman's former life, and furnished by the chief of police at the magistrate's request. With a gesture of authority M. Segmuller warned Goguet, the clerk with the silly smile, to get his writing materials ready. He then turned toward the Widow Chupin.
"I am forced to yield to your decision," said the magistrate sadly. "The clerk will now read the minutes of your examination listen." While Goguet read the evidence aloud, the prisoner listened without making any remark, but when asked to sign the document, he obstinately refused to do so, fearing, he said, "some hidden treachery."
Obeying the magistrate's orders, Goguet, the smiling clerk, had just finished drawing up at least a dozen summonses, when Lecoq returned from the Prefecture. M. Segmuller at once asked him the result of his errand. "Ah, sir," replied the young detective, "I have a fresh proof of that mysterious accomplice's skill.
Goguet, the smiling clerk, then closed the door, and, drawing a large envelope from his pocket, handed it to the magistrate. "Here is a communication from the governor of the Depot," said he.
If Rousseau had found no neater expression for his doctrine than this, the Social Contract would assuredly have been no explosive. See especially ch. viii. See Diderot's article on Hobbisme in the Encyclopædia, Oeuv., xv. 122. Esprit des Lois, I. i. Cont. Soc., II. vi. 50. Goguet has the merit of seeing distinctly that command is the essence of law. Cont. Soc., II. vi. 51-53.
So it must have been, for Goguet, the clerk, nodded approvingly. "Capital!" he murmured. "I should never have thought of that." While he was talking, M. Segmuller had carefully placed all the so-called "articles of conviction" in a large drawer, from which they would not emerge until the trial. "Now," said he, "I understand the case well enough to examine the Widow Chupin.
Turning to his clerk, M. Segmuller added: "Quick, Goguet, prepare a summons in the name of the wife of Hippolyte Chupin, and address an order to the governor of the Depot to produce her husband!" But night was coming on. It was already too dark to see to write, and accordingly the clerk rang the bell for lights.
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