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A FALSE SCENT.
The jailer's daughter had not been mistaken; it was indeed Roland whom she had seen in the jail speaking to the captain of the gendarmerie.
Neither was Amelie wrong in her terror.

Roland was really in pursuit of Morgan.
Although he avoided going to the Chateau des Noires-Fontaines, it was not that he had the slightest suspicion of the interest his sister had in the leader of the Companions of Jehu; but he feared the indiscretion of one of his servants.

He had recognized Charlotte at the jail, but as the girl showed no astonishment, he believed she had not recognized him, all the more because, after exchanging a few words with the captain, he went out to wait for the latter on the Place du Bastion, which was always deserted at that hour.
His duties over, the captain of gendarmerie joined him.

He found Roland impatiently walking back and forth.