I managed to reach him on the threshold of the pavilion. "Calm
yourself, my dear fellow," I said. "Aren't you satisfied?"
"Yes," he confessed to me, with a deep sigh. "I am quite satisfied.
I have discovered many things."
"Moral or material?"
"Several moral,--one material. This, for example."
And rapidly he drew from his waistcoat pocket a piece of paper in
which he had placed a light-coloured hair from a woman's head.
CHAPTER VIII
The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson
Two minutes later, as Rouletabille was bending over the footprints
discovered in the park, under the window of the vestibule, a man,
evidently a servant at the chateau, came towards us rapidly and
called out to Monsieur Darzac then coming out of the pavilion:
"Monsieur Robert, the magistrate, you know, is questioning
Mademoiselle."
Monsieur Darzac uttered a muttered excuse to us and set off running
towards the chateau, the man running after him.
"If the corpse can speak," I said, "it would be interesting to be
there."
"We must know," said my friend.
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