Madame Juliette is quite consoled for the loss of Noel. The eighty thousand francs hidden by him under the pillow were not taken from her.
They are nearly all gone now though. Before long the sale of a handsome suite of furniture will be announced.
Old Tabaret, alone, is indelibly impressed. After having believed in the infallibility of justice, he now sees every where nothing but judicial errors.
The ex-amateur detective doubts the very existence of crime, and maintains that the evidence of one"s senses proves nothing. He circulates pet.i.tions for the abolition of capital punishment, and has organised a society for the defence of poor and innocent prisoners.