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Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead
man; that the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he,
the coachman, recognized him perfectly, although he was
alive ‘this time”; that afterwards, they had entered the ve-
hicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few paces
from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt;
that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and
that the police-agent had led the other man away; that he
knew nothing more; that the night had been very dark.
Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only re-
membered that he had been seized from behind by an
energetic hand at the moment when he was falling back-
wards into the barricade; then, everything vanished so far
as he was concerned.
He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenor-
mand’s.
He was lost in conjectures.
He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it
come to pass that, having fallen in the Rue de la Chanvrerie,
he had been picked up by the police-agent on the banks of
the Seine, near the Pont des Invalides?
Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles
to the Champs-Elysees. And how? Through the sewer. Un-
heard-of devotion!
Some one? Who?
This was the man for whom Marius was searching.
Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not
the faintest indication.
Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that

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