Rouletabille advanced toward him.
“Larsan,” he said in a voice which was not quite steady, “Larsan, do you give yourself up?”
But Larsan did not reply.
Then Rouletabille touched the man’s face and his hand and we saw that Larsan was dead.
Rouletabille pointed to a ring on the middle finger. The collet was open and showed a hollow cup which was empty. It must have contained a deadly poison.
Arthur Rance put his head against the man’s chest and assured us that all was over. And Rouletabille entreated us to leave him alone in the Square Tower and to try and forget the terrible events which had passed there.
“I will charge myself with everything,” he asserted gravely. “Here is the ‘body too many.’ No one will inquire into the disposition which may be made of it.”
And he gave an order to Walter which Arthur Rance translated into English.
“Walter, bring me the sack which you found at the Castillon yesterday.”
