"Come, I will be frank with you.

There are great interests involved here, and, before all things, I have had to consider the welfare of our friends.
That is my duty! Emil Sachs by this time is beyond risk of detection.
He has left behind a letter, in which he confesses that he has for some time supplemented the profits of his wine-shop by selling secretly certain deadly poisons of his own concoctions.

Alarmed at reading of the death of Duson immediately after he had sold a poison which the symptoms denoted he had fled the country.

That letter is in the hands of the woman who remains in the wine-shop, and will only be used in case of necessity.

By other means we have dissociated ourselves from Duson and all connection with him.