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Updated: May 6, 2025
Daddy Jacques follows me. We re-enter the chateau. I send Daddy Jacques to wake Monsieur Stangerson, and instruct him to await my coming in Mademoiselle Stangerson's room and to say nothing definite to him before my arrival. I will go and awaken Frederic Larsan.
I gave Larsan time to catch the 4:17 train for Paris, where he would know where to hide himself, and leave no traces. You will not find Frederic Larsan," declared Rouletabille, fixing his eyes on Monsieur Robert Darzac. "He is too cunning. He is a man who has always escaped you and whom you have long searched for in vain. If he did not succeed in outwitting me, he can yet easily outwit any police.
Why these footprints, which I expected to find!" he cried, pointing to the sharply outlined imprint of a neat boot. "See!" and he called to Frederic Larsan. "Monsieur Fred, these neat footprints seem to have been made since the discovery of the crime." "Yes, young man, yes, they have been carefully made," replied Fred without raising his head.
I noticed, when he was in her room after the incident in the gallery, that he kept himself in the shadow, and that he kept his head bent down. He was looking for the lost eye-glasses. Mademoiselle Stangerson knew Larsan under another name." "Monsieur Darzac," asked the President, "did Mademoiselle Stangerson in any way confide in you on this matter?
Then he recognised me. While Larsan was unlocking the gate, Monsieur Darzac inquired what had brought me to the Glandier at such a tragic moment. I noticed that he was frightfully pale, and that his face was lined as if from the effects of some terrible suffering. "Is Mademoiselle getting better?" I immediately asked. "Yes," he said. "She will be saved perhaps. She must be saved!"
"Did you have them arrested, Monsieur Fred?" "Not I! I haven't had them arrested. In the first place, I am pretty sure that they have not had anything to do with the affair, and then because " "Because of what?" asked Rouletabille eagerly. "Because of nothing," said Larsan, shaking his head. "Because there were no accomplices!" said Rouletabille.
"No there was but one, and he had no accomplice." "Very good! Very good!" cried Frederic Larsan.
As the President remained silent, Frederic Larsan continued: "We agree that the murderer of the keeper was the assailant of Mademoiselle Stangerson; but as we are not agreed as to how the murderer escaped, I am curious to hear Monsieur Rouletabille's explanation." "I have no doubt you are," said my friend. General laughter followed this remark.
He stabbed her in his anger, determined to convict Darzac of the crime. As Larsan he could do it, and had so managed things that Darzac could never explain how he had employed the time of his absence from the chateau. Ballmeyer's precautions were most cunningly taken. Larsan had threatened Darzac as he had threatened Mathilde with the same weapon, and the same threats.
And that is why I can triumph over your error and your merely animal intelligence, Frederic Larsan. "Be of good courage, then, friend Rouletabille; it is impossible that the incident of the inexplicable gallery should be outside the circle of your reason. You know that!
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