His determination to go to Paris had been taken without any conference with Mademoiselle Stangerson.
"To cut the story short, he repeated that his belief in the possibility of a fresh attack was founded entirely on the extraordinary coincidence.
'If anything happens to Mademoiselle Stangerson,' he said, 'it would be terrible for both of us.

For her, because her life would be in danger; for me because I could neither defend her from the attack nor tell of where I had been.

I am perfectly aware of the suspicions cast on me.
The examining magistrate and Monsieur Larsan are both on the point of believing in my guilt.

Larsan tracked me the last time I went to Paris, and I had all the trouble in the world to get rid of him.' "'Why do you not tell me the name of the murderer now, if you know it ?' I cried.
"Monsieur Darzac appeared extremely troubled by my question, and replied to me in a hesitating tone: "'I ?--I know the name of the murderer?
Why, how could I know his name ?' "I at once replied: 'From Mademoiselle Stangerson.' "He grew so pale that I thought he was about to faint, and I saw that I had hit the nail right on the head.

Mademoiselle and he knew the name of the murderer! When he recovered himself, he said to me: 'I am going to leave you.