“Yes,” replied M. Folgat; “but we have some information of which you have heard as yet nothing.”
Then he told them that Suky Wood had arrived, and what she had given in as evidence.
M. Galpin had sunk into a chair, completely crushed by the weight of so many proofs of his misapprehension of the case. There he sat without saying a word, without moving a muscle. But M. Daubigeon was radiant.
“Most assuredly,” he cried, “Jacques must be innocent!”
“Most assuredly he is innocent!” said Dr. Seignebos; “and the proof of it is, that I know who is guilty.”
“Oh!”
“And you will know too, if you will take the trouble of following me, with M. Galpin, to the hospital.”
It was just striking one; and not one of them all had eaten any thing that morning. But they had no time to think of breakfast.
Without a shadow of hesitation, M. Daubigeon turned to M. Galpin, and said,—
“Will you come, Galpin?”