I always felt it, and this business proves how correct were my instincts.

The rogue was bribed when he discovered how things were with you, you greasy sots.

But you, La Boulaye," he cried suddenly, "were you drunk, too ?" "Not I," answered the Deputy.
"Then, name of a name, how came that lumbering coach to leave the yard without awakening you ?" "You ask me to explain too much," was La Boulaye's cool evasion.

"I have always accounted myself a light sleeper, and I could not have believed that such a thing could really have taken place without disturbing me.
But the fact remains that the coach has gone, and I think that instead of standing here in idle speculation as to how it went, you might find more profitable employment in considering how it is to brought back again.

It cannot have gone very far." If any ray of suspicion had begun to glimmer in Charlot's brain, that suggestion of La Boulaye's was enough to utterly extinguish it.
They returned indoors, and without more ado Tardivet set himself to plan the pursuit.