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It all depended as to whether Larsan's discoveries tallied with Rouletabille's reasoning or not. When they did he would exclaim: "He is really great!" When they did not he would grunt and mutter, "What an ass!" It was a petty side of the noble character of this strange youth. We had risen, and he led me into the park.
Who, I keep asking myself night and day, is the man who so strongly resembles Monsieur Robert Darzac, and who is also known to have bought the cane which has fallen into Larsan's hands? "The most serious fact is that Monsieur Darzac was, at the very same time that his double presented himself at the Post Office, scheduled for a lecture at the Sorbonne.
I should not myself have attached any importance to the circumstance, if it had not been recalled to my mind, some months later, by the reappearance of the man with the beard at one of the most tragic moments of this case. I then learned that the youth was one of Larsan's assistants and had been charged by him to watch the going and coming of travellers at the station of Epinay-sur-Orge.
"For there are surface evidences against Darzac, much more convincing than that cane, which remains incomprehensible to me, all the more so as Larsan does not in the least hesitate to let Darzac see him with it! I understand many things in Larsan's theory, but I can't make anything of that cane. "Is he still at the chateau?" "Yes; he hardly ever leaves it!
Had you already suspected Larsan when you sent for me to bring the revolvers?" "Yes! I had come to that conclusion through the incident of the 'inexplicable gallery. Larsan's return to Mademoiselle Stangerson's room, however, had not then been cleared up by the eye-glasses.
What were these evidences? "1st. I had seen the unknown in Mademoiselle Stangerson's chamber. On going to Frederic Larsan's room, I had found Larsan sound asleep. "2nd. The ladder. "3rd. I had placed Frederic Larsan at the end of the 'off-turning' gallery and had told him that I would rush into Mademoiselle Stangerson's room to try to capture the murderer.
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He left at about four o'clock and has not been seen since." "That is my proof!" cried Rouletabille, triumphantly. "Explain yourself?" demanded the President. "My proof is Larsan's flight," said the young reporter. "He will not come back. You will see no more of Frederic Larsan." "Unless you are playing with the court, Monsieur, why did you not accuse him when he was present?
Rouletabille had dropped into silence. His thoughts were certainly still occupied with Frederic Larsan's new cane. I had proof of that when, as we came near to Epinay, he said: "Frederic Larsan arrived at the Glandier before me; he began his inquiry before me; he has had time to find out things about which I know nothing. Where did he find that cane?"
He had entered by the open window at the extremity of the 'off-turning' gallery; he had passed Frederic Larsan's door and mine, had turned to the right, and had entered Mademoiselle Stangerson's room. I am before the door of her ante-room it is open. I push it, without making the least noise. Under the door of the room itself I see a streak of light. I listen no sound not even of breathing!
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