"You saw him throw her over?" "Yes, I swear it. I then tried to stop the murderer, but he escaped from my hands, knocked me senseless with a blow--here is the cut on my forehead now--and he got off, heaven only knows where. I had cried, `_a voleur_' and `_assassinat_' as loud as I could before I became insensible, but no one came to my help. When I recovered my consciousness I walked feebly down the path, and meeting a _sergent de ville_, told him all about the murder, but he arrested me, thinking, he says, I was drunk, and I was locked up in a cell till this evening, when the Chef released me, apologising for the mistake of his subordinate. I have only to add," observed Miss Kingscott, after she had finished answering the questions put to her, "that had it not been for this mistake on the part of your boasted _sergents de ville_, which could only have arisen from sheer stupidity, the murderer might never have got off." "_C'est possible_!" said the judge, making a note against the name of the unfortunate guardian of the peace who had arrested the governess. "But Mademoiselle will recollect that according to her statement it was several hours after the escape of her assailant that she was thus _arretee_. Call the next witnesses!" And the interrogatory went on. The Mere Cliquelle and her husband, "_son petit bon homme_," as she called him, were then examined to the same purport as already detailed by the Chef to Miss Kingscott, Dechemal corroborating what had been previously told him, and certifying to their arrest by him, and importation before the Juge de Paix. Auguste, the other of the Chefs inquisitors, had little to tell. He had searched the _cabarets_ and hotels, and enquired at the office of the Steamboat Company, and along the quays. No Englishman, or any one else resembling Markworth's description had been seen or heard of since yesterday evening, or had taken passage for England. This was all the evidence that could be obtained, and on it Monsieur le Juge de Paix framed the _acte d'accusation_, by which the charge of wilful murder was established against Markworth, and a warrant issued for his arrest. The police, therefore, acting under the orders of the Chef, were on the alert. Directions were also given to the fishermen and sailors about the quays to look out for a body in the river: the Seine was then dragged with better effect, for the very next day the surmises of the Judge and the Chef were set at rest.