Yet again, if she were guilty, how did it happen that she had been so mishandled by her accomplices?
He was not allowed however, to reflect upon these remarkable problems.

He had too busy a time of it.

At one moment he was running to fetch water wherewith to bathe Celia's forehead.

At another, when he had returned with the water, he was distracted by the appearance of Durette, the inspector from Aix, in the doorway.
"We have them both," he said--"Hippolyte and the woman.

They were hiding in the garden." "So I thought," said Hanaud, "when I saw the door open downstairs, and the morphia-needle on the table." Lemerre turned to one of the officers.
"Let them be taken with old Jeanne in cabs to the depot." And when the man had gone upon his errand Lemerre spoke to Hanaud.
"You will stay here tonight to arrange for their transfer to Aix ?" "I will leave Durette behind," said Hanaud.