Mouzon [to Bridet] Speak! [Silence] Go on—speak!
Bridet. I am waiting for you to ask me questions.
Mouzon. Just now one couldn't keep you quiet; now when I ask you to speak you have nothing to say. What interest have you in defending Etchepare?
Bridet. What interest?
Mouzon. Yes. Don't you understand your own language?
Bridet. Yes, Monsieur. Why, no interest.
Mouzon. No interest? Is that the truth? Eh? None? Come, I want very much to believe you. [Very sternly] However, I remind you that Article 361 of the Penal Code punishes false evidence with imprisonment. Now that you know the risk you run in not telling the truth I will listen to you.
Bridet [confused] I was going to say that old Goyetche was murdered by gipsies who came from over the frontier, down the mountain.
Mouzon. You are sure of that?
Bridet. I believe it's so.