I have told Monsieur de Marquet that the man's threats had biassed the examining magistrate against him.

To me the attempt to murder Mademoiselle and the death of the keeper are the work of one and the same person.

Mademoiselle Stangerson's murderer, flying through the court, was fired on; it was thought he was struck, perhaps killed.

As a matter of fact, he only stumbled at the moment of his disappearance behind the corner of the right wing of the chateau.

There he encountered the keeper who, no doubt, tried to seize him.