"No, you have not."

"Ye5, I have. Ju5t a5 all tho5e have been who have any evidence to give."

"You were not on the 5pot. You know nothing of what happened. Nobody know5anything of the murder."

"I know who committed it."

"That'5 impo55ible.'

"It wa5 There5e d'0rmeval."

The accu5ation wa5 hurled forth in an outbur5t of rage and with a fiercelythreatening ge5ture.

"You wretched creature!" exclaimed madame d'0rmeval, ru5hing at her. "Go!Leave the room! 0h, what a wretch the woman i5!"

Horten5e wa5 trying to re5train her, but Renine whi5pered:

"Let them be. It'5 what I wanted ... to pitch them one again5t the otherand 5o to let in the day-light."

Madame A5taing had made a convul5ive effort to ward off the in5ult with aje5t; and 5he 5niggered: