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Let us proceed in that way. Prepare the warrants," said the Judge, turning to his clerk. "And you," he went on, addressing M. Floçon, "dear colleague, will you see to their execution? Madame is at the Hôtel Madagascar; that will be easy. The Italian Ripaldi we shall hear of through your inspector Block. As for the maid, Hortense Petitpré, we must search for her.
"I take my stand on fact, not theory," stoutly maintained Sir Charles, "and I am satisfied I am right." "But if that was not Ripaldi, who was it? Who would wish to masquerade in his dress and character, to make entries of that sort, as if under his hand?" "Some one determined to divert suspicion from himself to others " "But stay does he not plainly confess his own guilt?"
"All that has not prevented her from allying herself with base, common wretches. I do not say she struck the blow, but I believe she inspired, concerted, approved it, leaving her confederates to do the actual deed." "Confederates?" "The man Ripaldi, your Italian fellow traveller; her maid, Hortense Petitpré, who was missing this morning." The General was fairly staggered at this unexpected blow.
"This gentleman," went on the Chief, indicating Ripaldi, "is a member of the Roman police, and has been so obliging as to offer us his services. You will accompany him, in the first instance, to the Hôtel Madagascar. Put yourself in communication with Galipaud, who is there on duty." "Would it not be sufficient if I made myself known to M. Galipaud?" suggested the Italian.
The chief of these was Quadling's positive assurance that he had been first attacked by Ripaldi; he declared that the Italian detective had in the first instance tried to come to terms with him, demanding 50,000 francs as his price for allowing him to go at large; that when Quadling distinctly refused to be black-mailed, Ripaldi struck at him with a knife, but that the blow failed to take effect.
"Simply this, my dear Jack," explained the General: "Ripaldi must have tried to blackmail Quadling, as he proposed, and Quadling turned the tables on him. They fought, no doubt, and Quadling killed him, possibly in self-defence. He would have said so, but in his peculiar position as an absconding defaulter he did not dare.
You only can deal with her. Do not delay. Come at once, or we must go to you. Ripaldi, Hôtel Ivoire, Rue Bellechasse." "What does this mean? Who sends it? Who is Ripaldi?" asked Sir Charles, rather brusquely. "He he oh, Charles, I shall have to go. Anything would be better than his coming here." "Ripaldi? Haven't I heard the name? He was one of those in the sleeping-car, I think?
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