"You say that Motier informed you about my death. Did he tell you how it had happened?"
"He said that you and he had fought, and that you had been killed."
"Why, then, did you not denounce him to the authorities on your arrival here?"
"On what charge?"
"On the charge of murder."
"I did not know that when one gentleman is unfortunate enough to kill another, in fair fight, that it can be considered murder. The duel is as lawful in America as in France."
"This was not a duel!" cried Cazeneau. "It was an act of assassination. Motier is no better than a murderer."
"I only knew his own account," said the priest.
"Besides," continued Cazeneau, "a duel can only take place between two equals; and this Motier is one of the canaille, one not worthy of my sword."
"Yet, monsieur," said the priest, "when you arrested him first, it was not as one of the canaille, but as the son of the outlawed Count de Montresor."