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"Can you show me the gun he took with him?" "No. My master probably took it to his room." M. Daubigeon was about to make a remark, when the magistrate stopped him by a gesture, and eagerly asked, "How long is it since your master and Count Claudieuse have ceased seeing each other?" Anthony trembled, as if a dark presentiment had entered his mind. He replied, "A long time: at least I think so."
Then he told them that Suky Wood had arrived, and what she had given in as evidence. M. Galpin had sunk into a chair, completely crushed by the weight of so many proofs of his misapprehension of the case. There he sat without saying a word, without moving a muscle. But M. Daubigeon was radiant. "Most assuredly," he cried, "Jacques must be innocent!" "Most assuredly he is innocent!" said Dr.
And yet he did resist; and, perfectly beside himself with anger, he cried, 'Rather the galleys! Then she laughed, mocking him, and saying, 'Very well, you shall go to the galleys!" Although Trumence entered into many details, it was quite evident that he kept back many things. Still M. Daubigeon did not dare question him, for fear of breaking the thread of his account.
"Finally, do you know what Daubigeon said to me, whose evidence you will certainly know how to appreciate? He said in so many words, 'Galpin could not but order the arrest of M. de Boiscoran. Is he guilty? I do not know what to think of it. The accusation is overwhelming. He swears by all the gods that he is innocent; but he will not tell how he spent the night."
He is down now, and cannot fall any lower." "That may be. But he also risks having a less indulgent jury, and not getting off with twenty years." "What do his counsel say?" "I do not know. But I have just sent my clerk to find out; and, if you choose to wait" M. Daubigeon did wait, and he did well; for M. Mechinet came in very soon after, with a long face for the world, but inwardly delighted.
M. Daubigeon smiled sarcastically, and said, much more for the purpose of teasing his visitor than because he believed it himself, "Take care! do not trust appearances. You have to do with very clever people. I always told you Cocoleu is probably the mainspring of the whole case. The very fact that M. Gransiere will speak ought to make you tremble.
"It would certainly be better for him to be left alone," growled Dr. Seignebos. "I have made him suffer enough this last hour; and I shall directly begin again cutting out the small pieces of lead which have honeycombed his flesh. But if it must be" "It must be." "Well, then, make haste; for the fever will set in presently." M. Daubigeon could not conceal his annoyance. He called out,
M. Jacques reminded her of the night of the crime, how they had been together a few minutes before the fire broke out, as they had agreed some days before to meet near Valpinson at that very time. At this meeting they had burnt their love-letters, and M. Jacques had blackened his fingers badly in burning them." "Did you really hear that?" asked M. Daubigeon. "As I hear you, sir."
He bent over, and drew from under the bench an enormous bottle, from which he seemed to draw a considerable quantity of something pleasant. Then he passed it to Cocoleu, who likewise began to pull, eagerly and long, and with an expression of idiotic beatitude. Then patting his stomach with his hands, he said, "That's that's that's good!" M. Daubigeon whispered into Dr. Seignebos's ear,
"More witnesses," replied the peasants. "Here are some more witnesses." The mayor turned round, and, after having exchanged glances with M. Daubigeon, he said to the magistrate, "They are bringing you some more witnesses, sir."
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