"
"It is true; I have remarked him. It seems to me, also, that I meet some
men when I go into the street who appear to be watching the house."
"Seriously, there is something extraordinary going on here."
"Who lives long enough will see."
"On this subject the head clerk, perhaps, knows more than we do. But he
plays the diplomatist."
"Exactly; and where is he, then, for so long a time?"
"He has gone to the house of the countess who was stabbed; it appears that
she is now out of danger."
"The Countess M'Gregor?"
"Yes; this morning she sent for the governor to come at once, but he sent
the head clerk in his place."
"It is, perhaps, for a will."
"No, because she is better."
"Hasn't he work enough now, the head clerk, since he has taken Germain's
place also?"
"Speaking of Germain, here is another strange thing.'"
"What is it?"
"In order to have him set at liberty, the governor has declared it was he
himself who made an error in his accounts, and that he had found the money
which he accused Germain of stealing."
"I do not find this strange, but just; you recollect I always said that
Germain was incapable of theft."
"It must, nevertheless, have been very disagreeable for him to be arrested
and confined as a thief."
"If I were in his place I would sue Jacques Ferrand for damages."
"The least he could do would be to reinstate him as cashier, in order to
prove that Germain was not culpable.
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