Later, when Monsieur Goddet returned to his patient he found her regretting that she had ever quitted Paris.
"Well," said Madame Hochon to Monsieur Goddet, "how is Monsieur Gilet ?" "His wound, though serious, is not mortal," replied the doctor.

"With a month's nursing he will be all right.

I left him writing to Monsieur Mouilleron to request him to set your son at liberty, madame," he added, turning to Agathe.

"Oh! Max is a fine fellow.

I told him what a state you were in, and he then remembered a circumstance which goes to prove that the assassin was not your son; the man wore list shoes, whereas it is certain that Monsieur Joseph left the house in his boots--" "Ah! God forgive him the harm he has done me--" The fact was, a man had left a note for Max, after dark, written in type-letters, which ran as follows:-- "Captain Gilet ought not to let an innocent man suffer.