“And how was the anonymous letter written?”
“Backhanded.”
Again the abbé smiled. “Disguised.”
“It was very boldly written, if disguised.”
“Stop a bit,” said the abbé, taking up what he called his pen, and, after dipping it into the ink, he wrote on a piece of prepared linen, with his left hand, the first two or three words of the accusation. Dantès drew back, and gazed on the abbé with a sensation almost amounting to terror.
“How very astonishing!” cried he at length. “Why your writing exactly resembles that of the accusation.”
“Simply because that accusation had been written with the left hand; and I have noticed that——”
“What?”
“That while the writing of different persons done with the right hand varies, that performed with the left hand is invariably uniform.”
“You have evidently seen and observed everything.”