Thus he was unable to come to any decision, and when he returned to Montmartre two days later he had again relapsed into a state of torment.
Feverishness, moreover, had come upon the happy home.

Guillaume was becoming more and more annoyed about Salvat's affair, not a day elapsing without the newspapers fanning his irritation.

He had at first been deeply touched by the dignified and reticent bearing of Salvat, who had declared that he had no accomplices whatever.

Of course the inquiry into the crime was what is called a secret one; but magistrate Amadieu, to whom it had been entrusted, conducted it in a very noisy way.

The newspapers, which he in some degree took into his confidence, were full of articles and paragraphs about him and his interviews with the prisoner.