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This lasted for a minute or two, after which M. Pancaldi recovered from his swoon, wiped away the perspiration streaming down his forehead and, striving to control himself, resumed, in a trembling voice: "Why do you apply to me?" "Because the clasp is in your possession." "Who told you that?" he said, without denying the accusation. "How do you know?" "I know because it is so.
Less than five minutes had elapsed between the moment when he made his offer to Pancaldi and the moment when Pancaldi turned him out of the shop with a statuette in his arms. The dining-room and drawing-room of the flat which Renine had taken on the first floor looked out upon the street. The table in the dining-room was laid for two.
Renine said to her: "Your husband and I need your assistance, Madame Pancaldi, to settle a rather complicated matter a matter in which you played an important part...." She came forward without a word, obviously ill at ease, asking her husband, who did not take his eyes off her: "What is it?... What do they want with me?... What is he referring to?" "It's about the clasp!"
That was why, in a weak moment prompted by M. Pancaldi, you stole the clasp. Six months afterwards, you became Madame Pancaldi.... That is your whole story, is it not, told in a few sentences?
"Are you wanting anything in particular, madam?" asked M. Pancaldi, closing his desk and rising from his chair. "It's the man," thought Hortense. He had in fact an uncommonly pasty complexion. A little forked beard, flecked with grey, lengthened his face, which was surmounted by a bald, pallid forehead, beneath which gleamed a pair of small, prominent, restless, shifty eyes.
Both felt its discomfort to such a degree that they hesitated to make the least movement. In order to break it, Renine jested: "That worthy M. Pancaldi, how good it was of him to tell me what I wished to know! I knew, however, that by exasperating him, I should end by picking up the missing clue in what he said.
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