Night will perhaps bring on a better feeling; if you wish at any time to speak to me, send word, and I will come to you.

I will give orders to that effect.

You may read now, Constant." When Albert had departed under the escort of the gendarmes, the magistrate muttered in a low tone, "There's an obstinate fellow for you." He certainly no longer entertained the shadow of a doubt.

To him, Albert was as surely the murderer as if he had admitted his guilt Even if he should persist in his system of denial to the end of the investigation, it was impossible, that, with the proofs already in the possession of the police, a true bill should not be found against him.
He was therefore certain of being committed for trial at the assizes.

It was a hundred to one, that the jury would bring in a verdict of guilty.
Left to himself, however, M.Daburon did not experience that intense satisfaction, mixed with vanity, which he ordinarily felt after he had successfully conducted an examination, and had succeeded in getting his prisoner into the same position as Albert.