. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . sely with the scraps ofevidence gathered at La Jonchere. He soon appeared, morethan ever satisfied with the course he had taken. He then THE LEROUGE AFFAIR 803 placed all those material proofs upon his table, and coveredthem over with three or four large sheets of paper. The daywas far advanced; and M. Dahuron had no more than sufficienttime to examine the prisoner before night. He now re-membered that he had tasted nothing since morning; and hesent hastily for a bottle of wine and some biscuits. It was nolstrength, however, that the magistrate needed
. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . sely with the scraps ofevidence gathered at La Jonchere. He soon appeared, morethan ever satisfied with the course he had taken. He then THE LEROUGE AFFAIR 803 placed all those material proofs upon his table, and coveredthem over with three or four large sheets of paper. The daywas far advanced; and M. Dahuron had no more than sufficienttime to examine the prisoner before night. He now re-membered that he had tasted nothing since morning; and hesent hastily for a bottle of wine and some biscuits. It was nolstrength, however, that the magistrate needed: it was the while that he was eating and drinking, his thought-kept repeating this strange sentence. I am about to appearbefore the Yicomte de Commarin. At any other time, hewould have laughed at the absurdity of the idea. but. at thismoment, it seemed to him like the will of Providence. So be it, said he to himself: this is my immediately he gave the necessary orders for YicomteAlbert to be brought before ALBERT scarcely noticed his removal from home to the-*s. seclusion of the prison. Snatched away from his painfulthoughts by the harsh voice of the commissary, saying, Inthe name of the law I arrest you, his mind, completely upset,was a long time in recovering its equilibrium. Everythingthat followed appeared to him to float indistinctly in a thickmist, like those dream-scenes represented on the stage behinda quadruple curtain of gauze. To the questions put to himhe replied, without knowing what he said. Two police agentstook hold of his arms, and helped him down the stairs. Hecould not have walked down alone. His limbs, which bentath him, refused their rapport. The only thing he under-stood of all that was said around him was that the comte hadi struck with apoplexy; but even that he soon forgot. Theylifted him into the cab, which was waiting in the court-yardat the foot of the steps, rather ashamed at finding itself in SUCha place; and by pl
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