She burst into tears and confessed that she had been the keeper's mistress, and that her husband had suspected it.

She again, however, affirmed that he had had nothing to do with the murder of her lover.

Maitre Henri Robert thereupon asked the court to hear Frederic Larsan on this point.
"In a short conversation which I have had with Frederic Larsan, during the adjournment," declared the advocate, "he has made me understand that the death of the keeper may have been brought about otherwise than by the hand of Mathieu.

It will be interesting to hear Frederic Larsan's theory." Frederic Larsan was brought in.

His explanation was quite clear.
"I see no necessity," he said, "for bringing Mathieu in this.