Conscience -- Volume 2

promised, Phillis rang at Saniel's door, and he lef

herself on

sked, in a tr

he exact sum; also the propositions of the Prince Mazzaz

e said, pressing him in

master. You see it was a good

terrupt

id not speak of Caffie the

ied I had no time

ith the condemnation that we pronounced against hi

ou ch

just will happen. Caffie is punished for all his rascalit

Caffie had been punished soone

mained

smiling, "that your

hy that I am thinking, bu

ie be associated

s justice in which I believe in spi

talking i

rd about Caffie si

or almos

t that the crime was c

cher's knife. And more than that, the stroke that cut Caffie's throat was

investigations have disc

ve in this struggle. Caffie's position in his chair, where he was assaulted and where he died, indicates that the old scamp was sur

py I am to hear you

ise. "Of what importance is it to you whether Caffie was killed with or wi

s condemnation, which I did withou

that hastened

but I should be better pleas

u regr

that he

t understand it, and, if you wish, we will stop there.

talk to you of him, bec

she insisted on speaking of Caffie, when he had just expressed a

wish to ask my advice on the subject, yo

rassment and shame restrained me. And I reproach myself, for

ured

know-that my brother Florentin is a good and honest

uced the best impression on me during the sho

immediately that he

tain

before his departure for America. I have kept it from you until this moment, but you must know it now. Loving a woman who controlled him and made him do what she wished, he let himself be p

loyer wa

of whom I have never spoken to you, and now you understand why. The money he expected

to seek his fortune. And since you have seen him, you admit that he might be capa

but she closed his li

not drop the subject of Caffie, and of this button, on which the p

ur bro

, the day of the crime,

d the commissioner of police tha

ve a cry o

hen it is more serious tha

he crime was certainly committed between five and half-past, no one can accuse your brother of being the assassin, since he left before Caffie lighted his lamp. As

relief; if you could know

hasty to ala

and we experienced a shock that made us lose our heads. We saw the police falling on us, questioning Florentin, r

r explain how he lost t

conversation, Caffie spoke of a bundle of papers that he could not find. Florentin had had charge of these papers, and had placed them on a high shelf in the closet. As Caffie could not find them, and wanted th

id not pi

f his trousers longer than the other, he thought of the ladder, and found that

cour

and executed that the criminal would escape? That two days later the police would find a button on w

s under

on reading the newspaper that he felt there might be something seri

en to any one

weak and foolish. Mamma is like him in more than one respect, and as for me, although I am more resistant, I confess that, in the face of the law and the police, I should easily lose

he danger that you imagined

as na

how little foundation there is for it. The button

ials and the mark of the

crown an

And when the tailors are found, how could they designate the owner of this button, this one exactly, and not another? It i

nd we had to clothe him from head to foot. We were obliged to economize, an

k? And, if they get as far as your brother, they must prove that there was a struggle; that the button was torn off in this struggle; that your broth

ith us-wi

, you need not