And I shook my head.
"Is it not possible," she suggested, with that quiet sureness of judgment which, I think, is rarely given to women, "that Miste is alone responsible and the criminal?
Of course, I cannot explain the Baron Giraud's disappearance--but it is surely possible that Miste may have murdered the Vicomte and thrown his body into the Seine." "No, Madame, there has been no murder done." "You are sure ?" "I have, since the war, seen the Vicomte alive and well.".