Moreover, he's one of Duvillard's usual clients.

There can be no doubt that he took money, for he takes money in everything.

Only he always protects himself, and takes it for reasons which may be acknowledged--as payment or commission on account of advertising, and so forth.

And if I left him just now, looking, as it seemed to me, rather disturbed, and if he delays his arrival here to establish, as it were, a moral alibi, the truth must be that he has committed the first imprudent action in his life." Then Massot rattled on, telling all there was to tell about Fonsegue.

He, too, came from the department of La Correze, and had quarrelled for life with Monferrand after some unknown underhand affairs.