The different formalities to be gone through and the perquisitions will occupy some time, which I wish to employ in interrogating the Count de Commarin, the young man's father, and your friend M.Noel Gerdy, the young advocate.

The letters he possesses are indispensable to me." At the name of Gerdy, M.Tabaret's face assumed a most comical expression of uneasiness.
"Confound it," cried he, "the very thing I most dreaded." "What ?" asked M.Daburon.
"The necessity for the examination of those letters.

Noel will discover my interference.

He will despise me: he will fly from me, when he knows that Tabaret and Tirauclair sleep in the same nightcap.

Before eight days are past, my oldest friends will refuse to shake hands with me, as if it were not an honour to serve justice.