After a short pause, they asserted that they were perfectly sure that Rose and I had robbed M.Tantaine." "But did you not deny this monstrous charge ?" "I was utterly bewildered, for I saw that every circumstance was against me.

The evening before, Rose, in reply to Madame Loupin's importunities, had told her that she had no money, and did not know where to get any.
But, as you perceive, on the very next day I appeared in a suit of new clothes, and was prepared to pay my debts, while Rose had left the house some hours before.

Does not all this form a chain of strange coincidences?
Rose changed the five hundred franc note that Tantaine had lent me at the shop of a grocer, named Melusin, and this suspicious fool was the first to raise a cry against us, and dared to assert that a detective had been ordered to watch us." Mascarin knew all this story better than Paul, but here he interrupted his young friend.
"I do not understand you," said he, "nor whether your grief arises from indignation or remorse.

Has there been a robbery ?" "How can I tell?
I have never seen M.Tantaine from that day.

There is a rumor that he has been plundered and important papers taken from him, and that he has consequently been arrested." "Why did you not explain the facts ?" "It would have been of no use.