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After three days' investigation, he felt comparatively certain that the assassin had not left the train at Rueil, as all the people of Bougival, La Jonchere, and Marly do, but had gone on as far as Chatou. Tabaret thought he recognized him in a man described to him by the porters at that station as rather young, dark, and with black whiskers, carrying an overcoat and an umbrella.
He saw himself married, and all on a sudden, discovering the antecedents of Madame Tabaret, becoming mixed up with a scandalous prosecution, compromised, and rendered ridiculous. "When I think," he continued, "that my worthy Gevrol is running after the man with the earrings! Run, my boy, run! Travel is a good thing for youth. Won't he be vexed? He will wish me dead. But I don't care.
"I had counted upon M. de Commarin's testimony to recover for him all that he so well deserves. The count dead, Widow Lerouge dead, Madame Gerdy dying, or in any event insane, who then can tell us whether the substitution alluded to in the letters was ever carried into execution?" "True," murmured old Tabaret; "it is true! And I did not think of it. What fatality!
If Noel doesn't leave me, I shall be obliged to leave him. I am tired of having a lover who is ashamed of me and who despises me." "If he despises you, my pretty lady, he scarcely shows it here," replied old Tabaret, casting a significant glance about the room. "You mean," said she rising, "that he spends a great deal of money on me. It's true.
"I will now enumerate your mistakes," continued old Tabaret, "and I will show you how, on at least three occasions, you allowed an opportunity for solving this mystery to escape you." "But " "Pooh! pooh! my boy, let me talk a little while now. What axiom did you start with? You said: 'Always distrust appearances; believe precisely the contrary of what appears true, or even probable."
Mention me to the young advocate up there, if you like; he will tell you whether he has reason to regret knowing me." These words produced a painful impression on Tabaret. What, Noel, the prudent Noel, one of Clergeot's customers! What did it mean? Perhaps there was no harm in it; but then he remembered the fifteen thousand francs he had lent Noel on the Thursday.
His clothes had greatly suffered; he was covered with mud up to the chin. "In the first place," said he, at last, in a tone of affected modesty, "robbery has had nothing to do with the crime that occupies our attention." "Oh! of course not!" muttered Gevrol. "I shall prove it," continued old Tabaret, "by the evidence. By-and-by I shall offer my humble opinion as to the real motive.
In her eyes I shall always be her lover's assassin. I have with my own hands opened an abyss! I have lost her a second time, and by my own fault." The unhappy man heaped the bitterest reproaches upon himself. He was in despair. He had never so hated Albert, that wretch, who, stained with a crime, stood in the way of his happiness. Then too he cursed old Tabaret!
The magistrate turned against Albert precisely that which the day before had won the count's admiration. "What wonderful acting!" thought he. "Tabaret is decidedly possessed of second sight. To his inconceivable boldness, this young man joins an infernal cleverness. The genius of crime itself inspires him. It is a miracle that we are able to unmask him.
Well, I was quite an old man when my father died, the wretch, the " "M. Tabaret!" interrupted the magistrate, "for shame, M. Tabaret!" "But I have already told you, I have forgiven him, sir. However, you will soon understand my anger. On the day of his death, looking in his secretary, I found a memorandum of an income of twenty thousand francs!" "How so! was he rich?"
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