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They had to confess that they had found no trace of poison in the body, but they were still convinced the girl had died of poisoning. With his colleague backing him, Dr Pinault was able to put such facts before the Procureur-General that that official almost at once reached for his hat to accompany the two doctors to M. Bidard's.
HELENE. I had been given a funnel to wash. I was bringing it back. M. BIDARD. Helene, with her usual cleverness, is making the most of a fact. She had already appeared when she was given the funnel. Her presence disturbed me. And to get rid of her I said, ``Here, Helene, take this away and wash it. The accused persisted in denying M. Bidard's version of the incident.
In spite of the ministrations of himself and his colleague, Rosalie had died. The symptoms of the illness had been very much the same as in the case of a former servant of M. Bidard's, a girl named Rose Tessier, who had also died. With this in mind they had persuaded the relatives of Rosalie to permit an autopsy.
The door of the Professor's house was opened to them by Helene Jegado, another of M. Bidard's servants. She was a woman of forty odd, somewhat scraggy of figure and, while not exactly ugly, not prepossessing of countenance. Her habit of looking anywhere but into the face of anyone addressing her gave her rather a furtive air.
Me they stick me up in the mansard! Later, when Rosalie was very ill, Helene pretended to be grieved. ``You can't be so very sorry, the witness remarked; ``you've said plenty that was bad about the girl. Helene vigorously denounced the testimony as all lies. The woman had never been near Bidard's house.
The poisoner could hardly be M. Bidard, and as far as suspicion might touch the cook, she seemed to be lavish in her care of the patient. It was not until the very last that he, with his colleagues, became convinced of poison. Rosalie dead, the justiciary went to M. Bidard's. The cupboards were searched carefully.
Helene's first move was to look for the vessels containing the ejections of the invalid to throw them out. These were green in hue. M. Bidard stopped her, and locked the vessels up. That same day justice was invoked. M. Bidard's deposition had held his hearers spellbound for over an hour and a half.
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