You ought to have suspected, because when we were talking of the murderer's arrival, I said to you: 'I am quite sure Larsan will be here to-night.' "But one important point escaped us both.

It was one which ought to have opened our eyes to Larsan.

Do you remember the bamboo cane?
I was surprised to find Larsan had made no use of that evidence against Robert Darzac.

Had it not been purchased by a man whose description tallied exactly with that of Darzac?
Well, just before I saw him off at the train, after the recess during the trial, I asked him why he hadn't used the cane evidence.

He told me he had never had any intention of doing so; that our discovery of it in the little inn at Epinay had much embarrassed him.