“When was he killed, and how?”
“It was the night I was arrested.”
“That can not be: he was alive when you were seized!”
“Yes, he was; he was killed an hour after that. They stabbed him with a knife.”
“Where were you then?”
“I can’t tell; but I saw it.”
The confidence with which the girl asserted what seemed to her hearers impossible and absurd, disposed them to imagine that she was either really insane, or pretending to be so. So, leaving Michel aside, they proceeded to interrogate her about the robbery, asking her if she was guilty.
“Oh, no!” she answered.
“Then how came the property to be found about you?”
“I don’t know: I saw nothing but the murder.”