"But if it has no foundation?"
"I must tell you that you are negative, doctor, and not suggestive. We have a criminal and you have not. Do you see one?"
Saniel thought that the judge looked at him with a disagreeable persistency.
"No," he said, sharply.
Then rising, he said, more calmly:
"That is not in my line."
He had nothing to do but to retire, which he did; and on passing through the vestibule he said to himself that the magistrate was right. He believed that he held a criminal. Why should he let him go?
As for him, he had done what he could.