I sha'n't waste my time over it, for my theory won't allow me to occupy myself with mere imagination.

Only, as I am obliged for the moment to keep silent, and Larsan sometimes talks, he may finish by coming out openly against Monsieur Darzac,--if I'm not there," added the young reporter proudly.

"For there are surface evidences against Darzac, much more convincing than that cane, which remains incomprehensible to me, all the more so as Larsan does not in the least hesitate to let Darzac see him with it!--I understand many things in Larsan's theory, but I can't make anything of that cane.
"Is he still at the chateau ?" "Yes; he hardly ever leaves it!--He sleeps there, as I do, at the request of Monsieur Stangerson, who has done for him what Monsieur Robert Darzac has done for me.

In spite of the accusation made by Larsan that Monsieur Stangerson knows who the murderer is he yet affords him every facility for arriving at the truth,--just as Darzac is doing for me." "But you are convinced of Darzac's innocence ?" "At one time I did believe in the possibility of his guilt.

That was when we arrived here for the first time.