![]() ![]() In every phase of this remarkable story Mademoiselle Stangerson had always been the sufferer. He had been to Philadelphia.Īnd now, what was this mystery which held Mademoiselle Stangerson and Monsieur Robert Darzac in so inexplicable a silence? After so many years and the publicity given the case by a curious and shameless press now that Monsieur Stangerson knows all and has forgiven all, all may be told. In America he had learned who Larsan was and had obtained information which closed his mouth. ![]() Rouletabille evidently had found it necessary to go to America to find out what the mysterious tie was that bound her to Larsan by so strange and terrible a bond. ![]() I began to see that I was touching on the secret that concerned Mademoiselle Stangerson. He sat smoking his pipe, and made no further reply. "No doubt," I said, "but why did you go to America to find that out?" "Can't you understand that I had to know Larsan's true personality?" One day, however, on my still pressing him, he said: During the days that followed I had several opportunities to question him as to his reason for his voyage to America, but I obtained no more precise answers than he had given me on the evening of the adjournment of the trial, when we were on the train for Paris. ![]()
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