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CHAPTER XIX THE FORMULA
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Velmot dead, Bérangère alive: the joy of it! The sudden sense of security! This time, the evil adventure was over, since the girl whom I loved had nothing more to fear. And my thoughts at once harked back to Noël Dorgeroux: the formula in which the great secret was summed up was saved. With the clues and the means of action which existed elsewhere, mankind was now in a position to continue my uncle's work.
Bérangère called me back:
"He's dead, isn't he?"
I felt intuitively that I ought not to tell her a truth which was too heavy for her to bear and which she was afraid of hearing and I declared:
"Not at all. . . . We haven't seen him. . . . He must have got away. . . ."
My answer seemed to relieve her; and she whispered:
"In any case, he is wounded. . . . I know I hit him."
"Rest, my darling," I said, "and don't worry any more about anything."
She did as she was told; and she was so weary that she soon fell asleep.
Before taking her home, the count and I went back to the body and lowered it down the slope of the ravine, which we followed to the wall that surrounded the estate. As there was a breach1 at this spot, the count gave it as his opinion that Velmot could not have entered anywhere but here. And in fact a little lower down, at the entrance to a lonely forest-road we discovered his car. We lifted the body into it, placed the revolver on the seat, drove the car to a distance of half a mile and left it at the entrance to a clearing. We met nobody on the road. The death would beyond a doubt be ascribed to suicide.
An hour later, Bérangère, now back to the lodge2 and lying on her bed, gave me her hand, which I covered with kisses. We were alone, with no more enemies around us. There was no hideous3 shape prowling in the dark. No one was any longer able to thwart4 our rightful happiness.
"The nightmare has passed," I said. "There is no obstacle left between you and me. You will no longer try to run away, will you?"
I watched her with an emotion in which still lingered no small anxiety. Dear little girl, she was still, to me, a creature full of mystery and the unknown; and there were many secrets hidden in the shadowy places of that soul into which I had never entered. I told her as much. She in her turn looked at me for a long time, with her tired and fevered eyes, so different from the careless, laughing eyes which I had loved long ago, and she whispered:
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