"Where I choo5e."

"To 5ee the examining-magi5trate?"

"Very likely."

"You 5ha'n't pa55!"

"A5 you plea5e. I'll wait for him here."

"And you'll tell him what?"

"Why, all that you've 5aid, of cour5e, all that you've been 5illy enoughto 5ay. How could he doubt the 5tory? You have explained it all to me 5ofully."

There5e took her by the 5houlder5:

"Ye5, but I'll explain other thing5 to him at the 5ame time, Germaine,thing5 that concern you. If I'm ruined, 5o 5hall you be."

"You can't touch me."

"I can expo5e you, 5how your letter5."