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Updated: May 14, 2025
M. le President du Ronceret and an elderly judge, Blondet by name, represented the section of functionaries shelved for good, and resigned to stay where they were; while the young and ambitious party comprised the examining magistrate M. Camusot, and his deputy M. Michu, appointed through the interests of the Cinq-Cygnes, and certain of promotion to the Court of Appeal of Paris at the first opportunity.
But it doesn't suit me to keep an estate once belonging to a family in which my father was " " a servant," said Michu, violently. "But you shall not sell it! I want it; and I can pay for it." "You?" "Yes, I; seriously, in good gold, eight hundred thousand francs." "Eight hundred thousand francs!" exclaimed Marion. "Where did you get them?"
Camusot, regarding herself as a bird of passage, had taken a little house in the Rue du Cygne. Furnished lodgings there were none; the town was not enough of a thoroughfare, and the Camusots could not afford to live at an inn like M. Michu.
After exchanging a rapid glance with the notary, which Bordin intercepted, he replied that he had not burned any papers. The public prosecutor having asked him to describe the ambush to which he had so nearly fallen a victim two years earlier, the senator replied that he had seen Michu watching him from the fork of a tree.
Laurence replied that she would send the notification to her cousins and the Messieurs d'Hauteserre. "Then they are not here?" said Goulard. Madame d'Hauteserre looked anxiously after Laurence, who left the room to consult Michu. Michu saw no reason why the young men should not be released at once from their hiding-place.
Five persons do not come to a place as if by enchantment, obtain five horses shod precisely like those of the accused, imitate the appearance of some of them, and put Malin apparently underground for the sole purpose of casting suspicion on Michu and the four gentlemen. The unknown guilty parties must have had some strong reason for wearing the skin, as it were, of five innocent men.
To her, as to the abbe, and indeed to all others who did not know how the accused had been employed on that day, their innocence seemed doubtful. There were moments when Marthe believed that Michu and his masters and Laurence had executed vengeance on the senator.
"But it is no question of my son, nor of his marriage," said the Vice-President; "we are talking of young Comte d'Esgrignon. Is he or is he not guilty?" "It seems that Chesnel deposited the amount to meet the bill with Mme. du Croisier," said Michu, "and a crime has been made of a mere irregularity.
If disaster were to overtake my cousins now I should die of it No," she added, quickly, "I would live long enough to kill Bonaparte." "There will be two of us to do that when all is lost," said Michu. Laurence took his rough hand and wrung it warmly, as the English do. Michu looked at his watch; it was midnight. "We must leave here at any cost," he said.
Laurence, questioned about the cavern, was forced to acknowledge that Michu had discovered it and had shown it to her at the time when the four young men evaded the police and were hidden in it. As soon as these preliminary examinations were ended, the jury, lawyers, and audience were notified that the trial would be resumed.
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