If one wanted--mon Dieu!--one could do such a thing easily enough.

To drag the river--yes--but that cost money.

Ten francs a day for each man.

It was hard work out there in the stream.

And if one found something--name of a dog--it turned on the stomach.
We arranged that two men should drag the river, and, after a weary day, went back to Paris no wiser than we came.
In this suspense a week passed, while I, unwilling to touch my patron's papers until we had certain news of his death, could render little assistance to Madame de Clericy and Lucille.