Why should he have risked crossing
the laboratory while the professor was in it? And then, when he
had got into The Yellow Room?
"There are many points to be cleared up before Larsan's theory can
be admitted. I sha'n't waste my time over it, for my theory won't
allow me to occupy myself with mere imagination. Only, as I am
obliged for the moment to keep silent, and Larsan sometimes talks,
he may finish by coming out openly against Monsieur Darzac,--if
I'm not there," added the young reporter proudly. "For there are
surface evidences against Darzac, much more convincing than that
cane, which remains incomprehensible to me, all the more so as
Larsan does not in the least hesitate to let Darzac see him with
it!--I understand many things in Larsan's theory, but I can't make
anything of that cane.
"Is he still at the chateau?"
"Yes; he hardly ever leaves it!--He sleeps there, as I do, at the
request of Monsieur Stangerson, who has done for him what Monsieur
Robert Darzac has done for me. In spite of the accusation made by
Larsan that Monsieur Stangerson knows who the murderer is he yet
affords him every facility for arriving at the truth,--just as
Darzac is doing for me.
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