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Updated: June 16, 2025
But to see was not the dominant faculty of Brigard; it was to reason, and reason told him that ambition would soon make Nougarede a deputy, as fortune would one day make Glady an academician; and in that case, although he detested assemblies as much as academies, they would then have two tribunes whence the good word would fall on the multitude with more weight. They might be counted on.
However, I hear that this fine unit is going down hill in his hands so I am sending you as "Coadjutor" to M. de La Nougarède. You will be working for yourself, for if the Colonel recovers his health I shall promote him to general, and if not I shall transfer him to the gendarmes.
But at the first words of an explanation Nougarede stopped him. "What you say is very possible, my dear friend; but I shall make you see that it is not for us to raise objections of this kind. Here is a testimony that may save our client; let us accept this, such as it may be, whence it comes.
This deposition Saniel made brief and exact, contenting himself with repeating his report. But then Nougarede rose, and begged the president to ask the witness to explain the struggle which should have taken place between the victim and his assassin; and the president, who had commenced by arguing, before the insistence of the defence, decided to ask this question.
I will go to Madame Dammauville; I will go everywhere. But will you permit me to express my astonishment that immediate profit is not made of this declaration to obtain the release of my brother?" He repeated the reasons that Nougarede had given him for not proceeding in this manner.
"We will follow it," Phillis said, "and I believe that it may bring about the result Monsieur Nougarede expects, as Madame Dammauville would have spoken to but few persons.
Despite the importunities of Phillis, Madame Cormier, and Nougarede, and of all those which might arise, he would not be fool enough to confront the danger of a recognition in the room where this paralytic was confined at least, that was probable, for, after what had happened, he was certain of nothing but this recognition might take place elsewhere.
At the least, it was curious; but if it were the same woman, he was not vexed to see that Nougarede had been less difficult than himself. On going to see Nougarede, Saniel vaguely fancied the lawyer would tell him that an acquittal was certain if Florentin passed to the assizes, and even that an 'ordonnance de non-lieu' was probable. But his hope was not realized.
He preferred that she should not leave her room, and that Nougarede should find a way to obtain her deposition without taking her to court; he would then feel more reassured, more calm in mind, and with a more impassive face he could go to court. Was he really unrecognizable? This was the question that beset him now.
When he reached Madame Cormier's, Phillis had not returned, and he was obliged to explain to the uneasy mother why her daughter was late. It was a delirium of joy, before which he felt embarrassed. How should he break the hope of this unhappy mother? What he had said to Phillis and to Nougarede he repeated to her. "But it is possible, also, for paralytics to enjoy all their faculties!"
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