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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Mathias de Gorne has committed no offence against the law. There's nothing criminal in trampling the soil around a well, in shifting the position of a revolver that doesn't belong to you, in firing three shots or in walking backwards to one's father's house. What can we ask of him? The sixty thousand francs?
"'No, the father lives at the far end of the village, on a lonely farm. "'And is Master Mathias jealous? "'A perfect tiger! "'Without reason? "'Without reason, for Natalie de Gorne is the straightest woman in the world and it is not her fault if a handsome young man has been hanging around the manor-house for the past few months. However, the de Gornes can't get over it.
He growled: "Let's have done with this. What are you asking?" "A few minutes of your kind attention." "And with what object?" "To establish the innocence of M. Vignal and Madame de Gorne." He was wearing that calm air, that sort of indifferent look which was peculiar to him in moments of actions when the crisis of the drama depended solely upon himself.
"'What, the father neither? "'The handsome young man is the last descendant of the people who bought the chateau long ago. This explains old de Gorne's hatred. Jerome Vignal I know him and am very fond of him is a good-looking fellow and very well off; and he has sworn to run off with Natalie de Gorne. It's the old man who says so, whenever he has had a drop too much. There, listen!
"It is quite likely that, after our struggle and after I had gone, Mathias de Gorne conceived a new plan by which, this time, his hatred would be fully gratified. He both loved and detested his wife. He held me in the greatest loathing. This must be his revenge."
"Yes, a little door of which Mathias de Gorne always had the key on him. The man must have taken it from him." "A way out into the open fields?" "Yes, a road which joins the departmental highway three quarters of a mile from here.... And do you know where?" "Where?" "At the corner of the chateau." "Jerome Vignal's chateau?" "By Jove, this is beginning to look serious!
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