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Once or twice she visited Anastasius in prison.
She found him humanely treated and not despondent.

He thought they had arrested him for the poisoning of the horse, and laughed at their foolishness.

As they refused to return him his dossier, he occupied himself in reconstructing it, and wrote pages and pages of incoherence to prove the guilt of Captain Vauvenarde.

He was hopelessly mad.