I need not tell the reader that
all that passed in the laboratory was immediately and faithfully
reported to me by Rouletabille.
CHAPTER XII
Frederic Larsan's Cane
It was not till six o'clock that I left the chateau, taking with me
the article hastily written by my friend in the little sitting-room
which Monsieur Robert Darzac had placed at our disposal. The
reporter was to sleep at the chateau, taking advantage of the to me
inexplicable hospitality offered him by Monsieur Robert Darzac, to
whom Monsieur Stangerson, in that sad time, left the care of all his
domestic affairs. Nevertheless he insisted on accompanying me to
the station at Epinay. In crossing the park, he said to me:
"Frederic is really very clever and has not belied his reputation.
Do you know how he came to find Daddy Jacques's boots?--Near the
spot where we noticed the traces of the neat boots and the
disappearance of the rough ones, there was a square hole, freshly
made in the moist ground, where a stone had evidently been removed.
Larsan searched for that stone without finding it, and at once
imagined that it had been used by the murderer with which to sink
the boots in the lake.
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