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Rh "How strange!" continued the king, with some asperity; "the police thinks all is said when it says, 'A murder has been committed, and particularly when it adds, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.

"Sire, your majesty will, I trust, be amply satisfied on this point at least."

"We shall see; I will no longer detain you, baron. M. de Villefort, you must be fatigued after so long a journey; go and repose yourself. Of course you stopped at your father's?"

A faintness came over Villefort.