She
further corroborated all that had passed just as her father had
stated. She had gone to the poste restante and, on the 23rd of
October, had received a letter which, she affirmed, contained nothing
but a vulgar pleasantry, which she had immediately burned.
To return to our examination, or rather to our conversation. I must
state that the Chief of the Surete having inquired of Monsieur
Stangerson under what conditions his daughter had gone to Paris on
the 20th of October, we learned that Monsieur Robert Darzac had
accompanied her, and Darzac had not been again seen at the chateau
from that time to the day after the crime had been committed. The
fact that Monsieur Darzac was with her in the Grands Magasins de la
Louvre when the reticule disappeared could not pass unnoticed, and,
it must be said, strongly awakened our interest.
This conversation between magistrates, accused, victim, witnesses
and journalist, was coming to a close when quite a theatrical
sensation--an incident of a kind displeasing to Monsieur de
Marquet--was produced.
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