. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . ert was beginning to recover a little from the stupor intowhich he had been plunged by the entrance of the commissaryof police. Sir, he asked, will you permit me to say a fewwords in your presence to the Comte de Commarin? I am thevictim of some mistake, which will be very soon discovered— Its always a mistake, muttered old Tabaret. What you ask is impossible, replied the commissary. Ihave special orders of the strictest sort. You must not hence-forth communicate with a living soul. A cab is in waitingbelow. Have the goodness to accompany me to it. In
. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . ert was beginning to recover a little from the stupor intowhich he had been plunged by the entrance of the commissaryof police. Sir, he asked, will you permit me to say a fewwords in your presence to the Comte de Commarin? I am thevictim of some mistake, which will be very soon discovered— Its always a mistake, muttered old Tabaret. What you ask is impossible, replied the commissary. Ihave special orders of the strictest sort. You must not hence-forth communicate with a living soul. A cab is in waitingbelow. Have the goodness to accompany me to it. In crossing the vestibule, Albert noticed a great stir amongthe servants; they all seemed to have lost their senses. gave some orders in a sharp, imperative tone. Then hethought he heard that the Comte de Commarin had been struckdown with apoplexy. After that, he remembered nothing. Theyalmost carried him to the cab, which drove off as fast as thetwo little horses could go. M. Tabaret had just hastened awayin a more rapid ly/T DABURON had arrived at his office in the Palais de±**m Justice at nine oclock in the morning, and was course resolved upon, he had not lost an instant, under-standing as well as old Tabaret the necessity for rapid had already had an interview with the public prosecutor,and had arranged everything with the police. Besides issuingthe warrant against Albert, he had summoned the Comte deCommarin, Madame Gerdy, Noel, and some of Alberts servantsto appear before him with as little delay as possible. Hethought it essential to question all these persons before exam-ining the prisoner. Several detectives had started off to executehis orders, and he himself sat in his office, like a general com-manding an army, who sends off his aide-de-camp to beginthe battle, and who hopes that victory will crown his com- THE LEROUGE AFFAIR 77;» binations. Often, at this same hour, he had sat in this office,under circumstances almost iden
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