"
The doctor had nothing to reply. M. Lecoq went on, speaking with
a certain hesitation, while his eyes interrogated M. Plantat.
"We must find the reasons of this murder, and the motives of the
assassin's terrible resolution--in the past. Some crime so
indissolubly linked the count and countess, that only the death of
one of them could free the other. I suspected this crime the first
thing this morning, and have seen it all the way through; and the
man that we have just shut up in there--Robelot--who wanted to
murder Monsieur Plantat, was either the agent or the accomplice of
this crime."
The doctor had not been present at the various episodes which,
during the day at Valfeuillu and in the evening at the mayor's, had
established a tacit understanding between Plantat and Lecoq. He
needed all the shrewdness he possessed to fill up the gaps and
understand the hidden meanings of the conversation to which he had
been listening for two hours. M. Lecoq's last words shed a ray of
light upon it all, and the doctor cried, "Sauvresy!"
"Yes--Sauvresy," answered M. Lecoq. "And the paper which the
murderer hunted for so eagerly, for which he neglected his safety
and risked his life, must contain the certain proof of the crime.
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