The Magistrate
Come forward, M. Baudrillon; (to Champagne) and you also.
Ramel M. Baudrillon, do you identify this man as the person who bought arsenic from you two days ago?
Baudrillon
Yes, that is the very man.
Champagne
Didn't I tell you, M. Baudrillon, that it was for the mice that were
eating up everything, even in the house, and that I wanted it for
Madame?
The Magistrate Do you hear him, madame? This is his plea; he pretends that you yourself sent him to get this stuff, and that he handed the package to you just as he took it from M. Baudrillon.
Gertrude
It is true, sir.
Ramel
Did you make any use of the arsenic, madame?
Gertrude
No, sir.
The Magistrate You can then show us the package sent by M. Baudrillon; it should have his label, and if he acknowledges that it is entire and unbroken, the serious charges made against your foreman will in part be disproved. We shall then have nothing more to do than to receive the report of the physician who held the autopsy.
Gertrude
The package, sir, has never been taken from the desk in my bedroom.
(Exit.)