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These maxims11, upon which he had never reflected, suddenly assumed for him a precise and austere12 meaning. He thought the matter over seriously. But since his mind was not deeply religious, and since he was incapable13 of cherishing exaggerated scruples14, he was conscious of only a passable degree of edification, which was steadily15 diminishing. Before long he decided16 that such scruples were out of place and that they could not possibly apply to the situation. "When we abandon ourselves to irregularities of conduct, even to those regarded as least culpable in the opinion of the world.... We perceive, from the most frightful examples...." These phrases, which only a little while ago had reverberated17 through his soul like a peal18 of thunder, he now heard in the snuffling and throaty voices of the professors and priests who had taught them to him, and he found them somewhat ridiculous. By a natural association of ideas he recalled a passage from an ancient Roman history—which he had read, when in the second form, during a certain course of study, and which had impressed itself on his mind—a few lines concerning a lady who was convicted of adultery and accused of having set fire to Rome. "So true it is," ran the historian's comment, "that a person who violates the laws of chastity is capable of any crime." He smiled inwardly at this recollection, [Pg 84] reflecting that the moralists, after all, had queer ideas about life.
The wick, which was charring, gave an insufficient20 light. He could not manage to snuff it, and it was giving out a horrible stench of paraffin. Thinking of the author of the passage relating to the Roman lady, he said to himself: "Sure enough, it was a queer idea that he got hold of there!"
He felt reassured21 as to his innocence22. His slight feeling of remorse had entirely23 evaporated, and he was unable to conceive how he could for a moment have believed himself responsible for Chevalier's death. Yet the affair troubled him.
Suddenly he thought: "Supposing he were still alive!"
A while ago, for the space of a second, by the light of a match blown out as soon as it was struck, he had seen the hole in the actor's skull24. But what if he had seen incorrectly? What if he had taken a mere25 graze of the skin for a serious lesion of the brain and skull? Does a man retain his powers of judgment26 in the first moments of surprise and horror? A wound may be hideous27 without being mortal, or even particularly serious. It had certainly seemed to him that the man was dead. But was he a medical man, able to judge with certainty?
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He lost all patience with the wick, which was still charring, and muttered:
"This lamp is enough to poison one."
Then recalling a trick of speech habitual28 to Dr. Socrates, as to the origin of which he was ignorant, he repeated mentally:
Instances occurred to him of several abortive30 attempts at suicide. He remembered having read in a newspaper that a married man, after killing31 his wife, had, like Chevalier, fired his revolver into his mouth, but had only succeeded in shattering his jaw32; he remembered that at his club a well known sportsman, after a card scandal, tried to blow out his brains but merely shot off an ear. These instances applied33 to Chevalier with striking exactitude.
"Supposing he were not dead."
He wished and hoped against all evidence that the unfortunate man might still be breathing, that he might be saved. He thought of fetching bandages, of giving first aid. Intending to re-examine the man lying in the front room, he raised the lamp, which was still emitting an insufficient light, too suddenly, and so extinguished it. Whereupon, surprised by the sudden darkness, he lost patience and exclaimed:
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"Confound the blasted thing!"
While lighting34 it again, he flattered himself with the idea that Chevalier, once taken to hospital, would regain35 consciousness, and would live, and seeing him already on his feet, perched on his long legs, bawling36, clearing his throat, sneering37, his desire for his recovery became less eager; he was even beginning to cease to desire it, to regard it as annoying and inconsiderate. He asked himself anxiously, with a feeling of real uneasiness:
"What in the world would he do if he came back, that dismal38 actor fellow? Would he return to the Odéon? Would he stroll through its corridors displaying his great scar? Would he once more have to see him prowling round Félicie?"
He held the lighted lamp close to the body and recognized the livid bleeding wound, the irregular outline of which reminded him of the Africa of his schoolboy maps.
Plainly death had been instantaneous, and he failed to understand how he could for a moment have doubted it.
He left the house and proceeded to stride up and down in the garden. The image of the wound was flashing before his eyes like the impression caused by too bright a light. It moved away from him, increasing in size against the black sky; it took the shape of a pale continent whence he saw [Pg 87] swarms39 of distracted little blacks pouring forth40, armed with bows and arrows.
He decided that the first thing to do was to fetch Madame Simonneau, who lived close at hand, in the Boulevard Bineau, in the residential41 part of the café. He closed the gate carefully, and went in search of the housekeeper42. Once on the boulevard, he recovered his equanimity43. He felt most uncomfortable about the accident; he accepted the accomplished44 fact, but he cavilled45 at fate in respect of the circumstances. Since there had to be a death, he gave his consent that there should be one, but he would have preferred another. Toward this one he was conscious of a feeling of disgust and repugnance46. He said to himself vaguely47:
"I concede a suicide. But what is the good of a ridiculous and declamatory suicide? Couldn't the fellow have killed himself at home? Couldn't he, if his determination was irrevocable, have carried it out discreetly48, with proper pride? That is what a gentleman would have done in his position. Then one might have pitied him, and respected his memory."
He recalled word for word his conversation with Félicie in the bedroom an hour before the tragedy. He asked her if she had not for a time been Chevalier's mistress. He had asked her this, [Pg 88] not because he wanted to know, for he had very little doubt of it, but in order to show that he knew it. And she had replied indignantly: "Chevalier? He? Good gracious no! You wouldn't have had me look at him!"
He did not blame her for having lied. All women lie. He rather enjoyed the graceful49 and easy manner with which she had cast the fellow out of her past. But he was vexed50 with her for having given herself to a low-down actor. Chevalier spoilt Félicie for him. Why did she take lovers of that type? Was she wanting in taste? Did she not exercise a certain selection? Did she behave like a woman of the town? Did she lack a certain sense of niceness which warns women as to what they may or may not do? Didn't she know how to behave? Well, this was the sort of thing that happened if women had no breeding. He blamed Félicie for the accident that had occurred and was relieved of a heavy incubus51.
Madame Simonneau was not at home. He inquired her whereabouts of the waiters in the café, the grocer's assistants, the girls at the laundry, the police, and the postman. At last, following the direction of a neighbour, he found her poulticing an old lady, for she was a nurse. Her face was purple and she reeked52 of brandy. He sent her to watch the corpse53. He instructed her to cover it [Pg 89] with a sheet, and to hold herself at the disposal of the commissary and the doctor, who would come for the particulars. She replied, somewhat nettled54, that she knew please God, what she had to do. She did indeed know. Madame Simonneau was born in a social circle which is obsequious55 to the constituted authorities and respects the dead. But when, having questioned Monsieur de Ligny, she learnt that he had dragged the body into the front room, she could not conceal56 from him that such behaviour was imprudent and might expose him to unpleasantness.
"You ought not to have done it," she told him. "When anyone has killed himself, you must never touch him before the police come."
Ligny thereupon went off to notify the commissary. The first excitement having passed off, he no longer felt any surprise, doubtless because events which, considered from a distance, would seem strange, when they take place before us appear quite natural, as indeed they are. They unfold themselves in an ordinary fashion, falling into place as a succession of petty facts, and eventually losing themselves in the everyday commonplace of life. His mind was distracted from the violent death of an unfortunate fellow-creature by the very circumstances of that death, by the part which he had played in the affair and [Pg 90] the occupation which it had imposed upon him. On his way to the commissary's he felt as calm and as free from mental care as though he had been on his way to the Ministry57 of Foreign Affairs to decipher despatches.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the police commissary entered the garden with his secretary and a policeman. The municipal physician, Monsieur Hibry, arrived simultaneously58. Already, thanks to the industry of Madame Simonneau, who was always interested in matters of supply, the house exhaled59 a violent smell of carbolic and was blazing with the candles which she had lit. Madame Simonneau was bustling60 to and fro, actuated by an urgent desire to procure61 a crucifix and a bough62 of consecrated63 box-wood for the dead. The doctor examined the corpse by the light of a candle.
He was a bulky man with a ruddy complexion64. He breathed noisily. He had just dined.
"The bullet, a large calibre bullet," he said, "penetrated65 by way of the palatal vault66, traversed the brain and finally fractured the left parietal bone, carrying away a portion of the cerebral67 substance, and blowing out a piece of the skull. Death was instantaneous."
He returned the candle to Madame Simonneau and continued:
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"Splinters of the skull were projected to a certain distance. They will probably be found in the garden. I should conjecture68 that the bullet was round-nosed. A conical bullet would have caused less destruction."
However, the commissary. Monsieur Josse-Arbrissel, a tall, thin man with a long grey moustache, seemed neither to see nor to hear. A dog was howling outside the garden gate.
"The direction of the wound," said the doctor, "as well as the fingers of the right hand, which are still contracted, are more than ample proof of suicide."
He lit a cigar.
"We are sufficiently69 informed," remarked the commissary.
"I regret, gentlemen, to have disturbed you," said Robert de Ligny, "and I thank you for the courteous70 manner in which you have carried out your official duties."
The secretary and the police agent, Madame Simonneau showing the way, carried the body up to the first floor.
Monsieur Josse-Arbrissel was biting his nails and looking into space.
"A tragedy of jealousy," he remarked, "nothing is more common. We have here in Neuilly a steady average of self-inflicted deaths. Out of a hundred suicides thirty are caused by gambling71. [Pg 92] The others are due to disappointment in love, poverty, or incurable72 disease."
"Chevalier?" inquired Dr. Hibry, who was a lover of the theatre, "Chevalier? Wait a minute! I have seen him; I saw him at a benefit performance, at the Variétés. Of course! He recited a monologue73."
The dog howled outside the garden gate.
"You cannot imagine," resumed the commissary, "the disasters caused in this municipality by the pari mutuel. I am not exaggerating when I assert that at least thirty per cent of the suicides which I have to look into are caused by gambling. Everybody gambles here. Every hairdresser's shop is a clandestine74 betting agency. No later than last week a concierge75 in the Avenue du Roule was found hanging from a tree in the Bois de Boulogne. Now, working men, servants, and junior clerks who gamble do not need to take their own lives. They move to another quarter, they disappear. But a man of position, an official whom gambling has ruined, who is overwhelmed by clamorous76 creditors77, threatened with distraint, and on the point of being dragged before a court of justice, cannot disappear. What is to become of him?"
"I have it!" exclaimed the physician. "He recited The Duel78 in the Prairie. People are rather tired of monologues79, but that is very funny. You [Pg 93] remember! 'Will you fight with the sword?' 'No, sir.' 'The pistol?' 'No, sir.' 'The sabre, the knife?' 'No, sir.' 'Ah, then, I see what you want. You are not fastidious. What you want is a duel in the prairie. I agree. We will replace the prairie by a five-storied house. You are permitted to conceal yourself in the vegetation.' Chevalier used to recite The Duel in the Prairie in a very humorous manner. He amused me greatly that night. It is true that I am not an ungrateful audience; I worship the theatre."
The commissary was not listening. He was following up his own train of thought.
"It will never be known, how many fortunes and lives are devoured80 each year by the pari mutuel. Gambling never releases its victims; when it has despoiled81 them of everything, it still remains82 their only hope. What else, indeed, will permit them to hope?"
He ceased, straining his ear to catch the distant cry of a newsvendor, and rushed out into the avenue in pursuit of the fugitive83 yelping84 shadow, hailed him, and snatched from him a sporting paper, which he spread out under the light of a gas-lamp, scanning its pages for certain names of horses: Fleur-des-pois, La Chatelaine, Lucrèce. With haggard eyes, trembling hands, dumbfounded, crushed, he dropped the sheet: his horse had not won.
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And Dr. Hibry, observing him from a distance, reflected that some day, in his capacity of physician to the dead, he might well be called upon to certify85 the suicide of his commissary of police, and he made up his mind in advance to conclude, as far as possible, that his death was due to accidental causes.
Suddenly he seized his umbrella.
"I must be off," he said. "I have been given a seat for the Opéra-Comique to-night. It would be a pity to waste it."
Before leaving the house, Ligny asked Madame Simonneau:
"Where have you put him?"
"In the bed," replied Madame Simonneau. "It was more decent."
He made no objection, and raising his eyes to the front of the house, he saw at the windows of the bedroom, through the muslin curtains, the light of the two candles which the housekeeper had placed on the bedside table.
"It's not necessary," replied Madame Simonneau, who had invited some neighbours of her own sex, and had ordered her wine and meat. "It's not necessary, I will watch by him myself."
Ligny did not press the point.
The dog was still howling outside the gate.
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Returning on foot to the barrier, he noticed, over Paris, a reddish glow which filled the whole sky. Above the chimney-pots the factory chimneys rose grotesque87 and black, against this fiery88 mist, seeming to look down with a ridiculous familiarity upon the mysterious conflagration89 of a world. The few passers-by whom he met on the boulevard strolled along quietly, without raising their heads. Although he knew that when cities are wrapped in night the moist atmosphere often reflects the lights, becoming tinged90 with this uniform glow, which shines without a flicker91, he fancied that he was looking at the reflection of a vast fire. He accepted, without reflection, the idea that Paris was sinking into the abyss of a prodigious92 conflagration; he found it natural that the private catastrophe93 in which he had become involved should be merged94 into a public disaster and that this same night should be for a whole population, as for him! a night of sinister95 happenings.
Being extremely hungry, he took a cab at the barrier, and had himself driven to a restaurant in the Rue19 Royale. In the bright, warm room he was conscious of a sense of well-being96. After ordering his meal, he opened an evening newspaper and saw, in the Parliamentary report, that his Minister had delivered a speech. On reading it, he smothered97 a slight laugh; he remembered [Pg 96] certain stories told at the Quai d'Orsay. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was enamoured of Madame de Neuilles, an elderly lady with a lurid98 past, whom public rumour99 had raised to the status of adventuress and spy. He was wont100, it was whispered, to try on her the speeches which he was to deliver in the Chamber101. Ligny, who had formerly102 been to a certain small extent the lover of Madame de Neuilles, pictured to himself the statesman in his shirt reciting to his lady-love the following statement of principles: "Far be it from me to disregard the legitimate103 susceptibilities of the national sentiment. Resolutely104 pacific, but jealous of France's honour, the Government will, etc." This vision put him in a merry mood. He turned the page, and read: To-morrow at the Odéon, first performance (in this theatre) of La Nuit du 23 octobre 1812 with Messieurs Durville, Maury, Romilly, Destrée, Vicar, Léon Clim, Valroche, Aman, Chevalier....
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