n stretched in that place. Now Monsieur de Tremorel
was tall enough to extend the full length of the bed."
This demonstration was so clear, its proof so palpable, that it
could not be gainsaid.
"This is nothing," continued M. Lecoq. "Let us examine the second
mattress. When a person purposely disarranges a bed, he does not
think of the second mattress."
He lifted up the upper mattress, and observed that the covering of
the under one was perfectly even.
"H'm, the second mattress," muttered M. Lecoq, as if some memory
crossed his mind.
"It appears to be proved," observed the judge, "that Monsieur de
Tremorel had not gone to bed."
"Besides," added the doctor, "if he had been murdered in his bed,
his clothes would be lying here somewhere."
"Without considering," suggested M. Lecoq, "that some blood must
have been found on the sheets. Decidedly, these criminals were
not shrewd."
"What seems to me surprising," M. Plantat observed to the judge,
"is that anybody would succeed in killing, except in his sleep, a
young man so vigorous as Count Hector."
"And in a house full of weapons," added Dr. Gendron; "for the
count's cabinet is full of guns, swords and hunting knives; it's
a perfect arsenal."
"Alas!" sighed M. Courtois, "we know of worse catastrophes. There
is not a week that the papers don't--"
He stopped, chagrined, for nobody was listening to him. Plantat
claimed the general attention, and continued:
"The confusion in the house seems to you surprising; well now, I'm
surprised that it is not worse than it is. I am, so to speak, an
old man; I haven't the energy of a young man of thirty-five; yet it
seems to me that if assassins should get into my house, when I was
there, and up, it would go hard with them. I don't know what I
would do; probably I should be killed; but surely I would give the
alarm. I would defend myself, and cry out, and open the windows,
and set the house afire."
"Let us add," insisted the doctor, "that it is not easy to surprise
a man who
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.