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of the cold, to put anything on her head. Her gentle blue eyes, full of anguish, and bathed in tears, gave her a most touching appearance.
"She may well cry," said Philom?ne in an undertone. "They are done for, now that their guardian-angel has been killed."
When S?verine was there, in the middle of all the people, before the open door of the coup?, M. Cauche and Roubaud got out; and the latter immediately began to relate what he knew. Addressing his wife, he said:
"Yesterday morning, my dear, as soon as we arrived at Paris we went to see Monsieur Grandmorin. And it was about a quarter past eleven. That is right, is it not?"
He looked fixedly at her, and she, in a docile tone, repeated:
"Yes, a quarter past eleven."
But her eyes had fallen on the cushion black with blood. She had a spasm, and her bosom heaved with heavy sobs. The station-master, who felt distressed, intervened with much concern:
"Oh! just a few words," interrupted the commissary; "and we will then have madam conducted home again."
Roubaud hastened to continue:
"It was at this visit that Monsieur Grandmorin, after talking of various matters, informed us that he was going next day to Doinville, on a visit to his sister. I still see him seated at his writing-table. I was here, my wife there. That is right, my dear, is it not? He told us he would be leaving on the morrow."
"Yes, on the morrow," said she.
M. Cauche, who continued taking rapid pencil notes, raised his head:
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