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CHAPTER XV THE SPLENDID THEORY
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It is not only to-day, when I am relating that tragic1 scene, that it appears to me in the light of a subsidiary episode to my story. I already had that impression at the time when it was being enacted2. My reason for laying no greater stress on my alarm and on the horror of certain facts is that all this was to me only an interlude. Massignac's sufferings and his disappearance3 and Velmot's inexplicable4 behaviour, in abandoning for some minutes the conduct of a matter to which he had until then applied5 himself with such diabolical6 eagerness, were just so many details which became blotted7 out by the tremendous events represented by Benjamin Prévotelle's discovery.
And to such an extent was this event the central point of all my preoccupations that the idea had occurred to me, as I rushed to Massignac's assistance, of snatching from the chair the newspaper in which I had read the first half of the essay! To be free meant above all things—even above saving Massignac and, through him, the formula—the opportunity of reading the rest of the essay and of learning what the whole world must already have learnt!
I made the circuit of the island in my boat and, shaping my course by certain lights, ran her ashore8 on the main bank. A tram went by. Some of the shops were open. I was between Bougival and Port-Marly.
At ten o'clock in the evening I was sitting in a bedroom in a Paris hotel and unfolding a newspaper. But I had not had the patience to wait so long. On the way, by the feeble lights of the tram-car, I glanced at a few lines of the article. One word told me everything. I too was acquainted with Benjamin Prévotelle's marvellous theory. I knew and, knowing, I believed.
The reader will recall the place which I had reached in my uncomfortable
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logic
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induction
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inevitably
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precisely
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emission
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analyzed
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