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t night that I did not mean to say. However, I don't regret it. Yes, it is my duty to do everything to save Mme. Fauville and to catch the real culprit. Only the task falls upon myself; and I swear that I shan't fail in it. This evening Florence Levasseur shall sleep in the lockup!" "I'll help you, Chief," replied Mazeroux, in a queer tone of voice. "I need nobody's help. If you touch a single hair of her head, I'll do for you. Do you understand?" "Yes, Chief." "Then hold your tongue." His anger was slowly returning and expressed itself in an increase of speed, which seemed to Mazeroux a revenge executed upon himself. They raced over the cobble-stones of Chartres. Rambouillet, Chevreuse, and Versailles received the terrifying vision of a thunderbolt tearing across them from end to end. Saint-Cloud. The Bois de Boulogne ... On the Place de la Concorde, as the motor was turning toward the Tuileries, Mazeroux objected: "Aren't you going home, Chief?" "No. There's something more urgent first: we must relieve Marie Fauville of her suicidal obsession by letting her know that we have discovered the criminals." "And then?" "Then I want to see the Prefect of Police." "M. Desmalions is away and won't be back till this afternoon." "In that case the examining magistrate." "He doesn't get to the law courts till twelve; and it's only eleven now." "We'll see." Mazeroux was right: there was no one at the law courts. Don Luis lunched somewhere close by; and Mazeroux, after calling at the detective office, came to fetch him and took him to the magistrate's corridor. Don Luis's excitement, his extraordinary restlessness, did not fail to strike Mazeroux, who asked: "Are you still of the same mind, Chief?" "More than ever. I looked through the newspapers at lunch. Marie Fauville, who was sent to the infirmary after her second attempt, has again tried to kill herself by banging her head against the wall of the room. They have put a straitjacket on her. But she is refusing all food. It is my duty to save her." "How?" "By handing over the real criminal. I shall inform the magistrate in charge of the case; and this evening I shall bring you Florence Levasseur dead or alive." "And Sauverand?" "Sauverand? That won't take long. Unless--" "Unless what?" "Unless I settle his business myself, the miscreant!" "Chief!" "Oh, dry up!" There were some reporters near them waiting for parti
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