"But ... master ... when they find out what's happened really?..."
"Ho! When it is discovered, it will seem quite natural that a person who means to commit suicide—for she will have committed suicide, you understand—should have taken precautions not to be disturbed ... you grasp this?"
"Yes, master ... yes!..."
They had returned to the garden: the man in the hooded mask was preparing to get over the gate....
"Farewell! Be faithful! Be intelligent!... You know what you have to gain?... You also know what risks you run?... Eh!... Now go!"
"You will return to-morrow, master?"
The man with the hooded mask looked his accomplice up and down.
"I shall return when it pleases me to do so."
Then, with marvellous agility, without making a spring for it, with a quite extraordinary muscular flexibility and power, the stranger leaped on to the little wall, cleared the gate, and disappeared into the night....
Jules, with bent head, much moved, terribly anxious, slowly walked back to the house....