"But I got to Fournel's first.

I put the will into his hands.
"I told him Madame Madelinette was following.

Then I went to bring the constables to his house to arrest her when he had finished with her." He laughed a brutal laugh, which deepened the strange glittering look in Louis' eyes.

"When I came an hour later, she was there.

But--now you shall see what stuff they are both made of! He laughed at me, said I had lied; that there was no will; that I was a thief; and had me locked up in gaol.