And the keeper would not have been killed!" Monsieur Darzac came in to speak with us.

His distress was terrible.
Rouletabille told him everything: his preparations for Mademoiselle Stangerson's safety; his plans for either capturing or for disposing of the assailant for ever; and how he would have succeeded had it not been for the drugging.
"If only you had trusted me!" said the young man, in a low tone.

"If you had but begged Mademoiselle Stangerson to confide in me!--But, then, everybody here distrusts everybody else, the daughter distrusts her father, and even her lover.

While you ask me to protect her she is doing all she can to frustrate me.

That was why I came on the scene too late!" At Monsieur Robert Darzac's request Rouletabille described the whole scene.