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He went on very rapidly this time, his eye fixed on M. Lecoq's rattan. "Monsieur had an attack of vertigo. All the house was in confusion; everybody except I, lost their heads; it occurred to me to go for a doctor, and I started off for one for Doctor Gendron, whom I knew to be at the chateau, or the doctor near by, or the apothecary it mattered not who.
Their stupor was caused by the detective's appearance; who, with his wrist of steel as rigid as handcuffs held the doctor's ex-assistant, and pushed him forward. The voice was certainly Lecoq's; there was his costume, his big-knotted cravat, his yellow-haired watch-chain still it was no longer Lecoq.
M. Plantat was just thinking whether he should dare to broach his projects again, and he was singularly touched by M. Lecoq's delicately resuming the subject of them. "I have only to await your decision," said the justice of the peace.
Now, it was essential that she should not suspect either what the magistrate knew of the affair, or what he was ignorant of. By leaving her to her own devices she might, in the course of the version which she proposed to substitute for the truth, not merely strengthen Lecoq's theories, but also let fall some remark calculated to facilitate the task of future investigation.
Lecoq's confidence in the oracle he was consulting was very great; but even old Tirauclair might be mistaken, and what he had just said seemed such an enormity, so completely beyond the bounds of possibility, that the young man could not conceal a gesture of incredulous surprise.
Lecoq's good sense told him plainly that the fugitive must have been put on his guard, and on rejoining Father Absinthe, he immediately exclaimed: "May spoke to some one on his way to the hotel." "Why, how could you know that?" exclaimed the worthy man, greatly astonished. "Ah! I was sure of it! Who did he speak to?" "To a very pretty woman, upon my word! fair and plump as a partridge!"
Both of them had keys; both of them knew the secret word and could have robbed the safe whenever they pleased. Therefore, neither of them would have committed the theft in the presence of somebody else. II. A Mysterious Journey Lecoq's first steps after establishing these preliminary deductions was to secure the release of Bertomy on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
"I can yet fly and conceal myself; I will go alone, and you can rejoin me afterward." "I have already told you that it is too late. The police have surrounded the house. And you know it is the galleys, or the scaffold!" "I can get away by the courtyard." "It is guarded; look." He ran to the window, saw M. Lecoq's men, and returned half mad and hideous with terror.
Does that clear Guespin, and show that he took no part in the murder?" This was evidently the flaw in Lecoq's case; but being convinced of Hector's guilt, he had given little heed to the poor gardener, thinking that his innocence would appear of itself when the real criminal was arrested. He was about to reply, when footsteps and voices were heard in the corridor. "Stop," said M. Domini.
He found deeds of the Morin property and of the Frapesle and Peyron lands; there were also two bonds, for one hundred and fifty and eight hundred and twenty francs, signed by two Orcival citizens in Robelot's favor. M. Plantat could scarcely conceal his disappointment. "Nothing of importance," whispered he in M. Lecoq's ear. "How do you explain that?" "Perfectly," responded the detective.
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