"
"That was suspicious evidently," acquiesced Rouletabille. "And
were they dressed?"
"That is what is so incredible--they were dressed--completely
--not one part of their costume wanting. The woman wore sabots,
but the man had on laced boots. Now they assert that they went to
bed at half-past nine. On arriving this morning, the examining
magistrate brought with him from Paris a revolver of the same calibre
as that found in the room (for he couldn't use the one held for
evidence), and made his Registrar fire two shots in The Yellow Room
while the doors and windows were closed. We were with him in the
lodge of the concierges, and yet we heard nothing, not a sound.
The concierges have lied, of that there can be no doubt. They must
have been already waiting, not far from the pavilion, waiting for
something! Certainly they are not to be accused of being the authors
of the crime, but their complicity is not improbable. That was why
Monsieur de Marquet had them arrested at once."
"If they had been accomplices," said Rouletabille, "they would not
have been there at all.
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