To-morrow,--for today my time is all taken up,--we will write down your deposition together if you like.

I have nothing more to say, I believe, except to ask you for the letters in your possession, and which are indispensable to me." "Within an hour, sir, you shall have them," replied Noel.

And he retired, after having warmly expressed his gratitude to the investigating magistrate.
Had he been less preoccupied, the advocate might have perceived at the end of the gallery old Tabaret, who had just arrived, eager and happy, like a bearer of great news as he was.
His cab had scarcely stopped at the gate of the Palais de Justice before he was in the courtyard and rushing towards the porch.

To see him jumping more nimbly than a fifth-rate lawyer's clerk up the steep flight of stairs leading to the magistrate's office, one would never have believed that he was many years on the shady side of fifty.

Even he himself had forgotten it.