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"Yet it is easy to see it," answered M. Domini. "Was it not for their interest to make it appear that the crime was committed after the last train for Paris had left? Guespin, leaving his companions at the Lyons station at nine, might have reached here at ten, murdered the count and countess, seized the money which he knew to be in the count's possession, and returned to Paris by the last train."
"So much the better for him," M. Lecoq could not help muttering. The judge heard him, but though the remark seemed singular to him he did not notice it, and went on questioning the agent. "Well, did they tell you what Guespin went there to obtain?" "The clerks recollected it perfectly. He first bought a hammer, a cold chisel, and a file." "I knew it," exclaimed the judge. "And then?" "Then "
"Well, Monsieur Plantat," he cried, "what a horrible affair this is! Come in, come in; there are several folks in the hall who saw the assassins. What a villain old Bertaud is! And that Guespin; ah, I would willingly trudge to Corbeil to see them put up the scaffold!" "A little charity, Master Lenfant; you forget that both these men were among your best customers."
But the groom of the house opposite, who burned to mix himself up in the affair, had none of these scruples. "Guespin," answered he, "is a good fellow. Lord, what jolly things he knows! He knows everything you can imagine. It appears he has been rich in times past, and if he wished But dame! he loves to have his work all finished, and go off on sprees.
"What was the errand which you were to do for the count?" Guespin hesitated. His eyes wandered from one to another of those present, and he seemed to discover an ironical expression on all the faces. It occurred to him that they were making sport of him, and had set a snare into which he had fallen. A great despair took possession of him.
And running to the staircase, he called his men. The day after Tremorel's death, old Bertaud and Guespin were set at liberty, and received, the former four thousand francs to buy a boat and new tackle, and the latter ten thousand francs, with a promise of a like sum at the end of the year, if he would go and live in his own province.
I will fire a pistol in this room, and I'll wager that you will not hear the echo in the road." "In the daytime, perhaps, but not in the night." "Well," said M. Domini, who had been reflecting while M. Courtois was talking, "if against all hope, Guespin does not decide to speak to-night, or to-morrow, the count's body will afford us a key to the mystery."
"A little man, wasn't he, thin, very dark, with black hair?" "Just so." "And whose name was wait now was Guespin." "Ah ha, you know him then?" Jenny hesitated. She was trembling very much, and evidently regretted that she had gone so far. "Bah!" said she at last. "I don't see why I shouldn't tell what I know.
The judge half turned toward the detective, as if he were displeased that M. Lecoq should dare to question him. "Guespin has not confessed," he answered, "but his case is none the better for that. Our searchers have returned. They haven't yet found the count's body, and I think it has been carried down by the current.
But if my theory is correct, justice will be forced to agree that the several hundred francs found in Guespin's possession can and must be the change for the note." "That is only a theory," urged M. Domini in an irritated tone. "That is true; but one which may turn out a certainty. It remains for me to ask this man how Guespin carried away the articles which he bought?
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