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This is a summary enquiry which I am conducting in your presence and which will be continued later by the examining-magistrate; and I wished above all to explain to you the very serious reasons for which I asked you to interrupt your journey and to come back here with Madame de Gorne. You are now in a position to refute the truly distressing charges that are hanging over you.
Deputy, we sat discussing for two hours. It was not that my offer roused his indignation I should not have risked it if I had not known with whom I was dealing but he wanted more and haggled greedily, though he refrained from mentioning the name of Madame de Gorne, to whom I myself had not once alluded.
"That's because the other person arrived before the snowfall, that is to say, before nine o'clock." "Then he must have hidden in a corner of the living-room and waited for the return of M. de Gorne, who came after the snow?" "Just so. As soon as Mathias came in, the man went for him. There was a fight. Mathias made his escape through the kitchen.
Some of them went up stairs to the first floor, while the sergeant arrived with a young man of whom Renine and Hortense were able to distinguish only the tall figure: "Jerome Vignal," said she. "Yes," said Renine. "They are examining Madame de Gorne first, upstairs, in her bedroom." A quarter of an hour passed. Then the persons on the first floor came downstairs and went in.
Each of them carried a gun slung over his shoulder. Between them was a short, slender young woman, in a brown cloak and a fur cap, whose rather thin and extremely pale face was surprisingly delicate and distinguished-looking. "'Father, son and daughter-in-law, whispered my cousin. "'What! Can that charming creature be the wife of that clod-hopper? "'And the daughter-in-law of Baron de Gorne.
"Old de Gorne tossed off a glass of brandy, swearing most horribly. "His son clapped his hand to the old man's mouth and forced him to sit down. Natalie de Gorne was weeping beside them.... "That's my story, dear friend. As you see, it's not tremendously interesting and does not deserve your attention. There's no mystery in it and no part for you to play.
Was there any reason why I should put Mathias de Gorne off the scent? Not at all. With the sixty thousand francs in his possession, as well as the paper in which I undertook to pay him a like sum on the day of his divorce, to say nothing of his house and land, he would go away, leaving Natalie de Gorne to me.
The deputy realized that this was one of those gentry who stick to you like a leech and that there was nothing for it but to submit. In a rather bantering tone, he asked: "Does your thinking enable you to tell us the exact spot where M. Mathias de Gorne is at this moment?" Renine took out his watch and answered: "In Paris, Mr. Deputy." "In Paris? Alive then?"
"And if that truth conflicts with the facts observed?" "It means that the facts are wrong, Mr. Deputy." "As you please. But, until the day when the police are able to make them agree with your statements, you will understand that I am obliged to keep you under arrest." "And Madame de Gorne?" asked Jerome, greatly distressed. The deputy did not reply.
What would she say when she realized that she was a prisoner in my hands?... The reasons why I escaped reproach Madame de Gorne has, I believe, had the frankness to tell you. Love calls forth love. That night, in my house, broken by emotion, she confessed her feeling for me. She loved me as I loved her. Our destinies were henceforth mingled.
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