I reach the further stage in this way.

In order to fill my outline of the robbery, I require a man likely to be in the forest idling, I require a man of education, I require a man superior to considerations of morality.

The three requisites all centre in Tentaillon's boarders.

They are painters, therefore they are continually lounging in the forest.

They are painters, therefore they are not unlikely to have some smattering of education.