loved by all who knew him--a young savant, the hope of French
science, whose whole life has been devoted to knowledge and truth.
When Paris heard of Monsieur Robert Darzac's arrest a unanimous cry
of protest arose from all sides. The whole Sorbonne, disgraced by
this act of the examining magistrate, asserted its belief in the
innocence of Mademoiselle Stangerson's fiance. Monsieur Stangerson
was loud in his denunciation of this miscarriage of justice. There
is no doubt in the mind of anybody that could the victim speak she
would claim from the jurors of Seine-et-Oise the man she wishes to
make her husband and whom the prosecution would send to the scaffold.
It is to be hoped that Mademoiselle Stangerson will shortly recover
her reason, which has been temporarily unhinged by the horrible
mystery at the Glandier. The question before the jury is the one
we propose to deal with this very day.

"We have decided not to permit twelve worthy men to commit a
disgraceful miscarriage of justice. We confess that the remarkable
coincidences, the many convicting evidences, and the inexplicable
silence on the part of the accused, as well as a total absence of
any evidence for an alibi, were enough to warrant the bench of
judges in assuming that in this man alone was centered the truth
of the affair. The evidences are, in appearance, so overwhelming
against Monsieur Robert Darzac that a detective so well informed,
so intelligent, and generally so successful, as Monsieur Frederic
Larsan, may be excused for having been misled by them. Up to now
everything has gone against Monsieur Robert Darzac in the
magisterial inquiry. To-day, however, we are going to defend him
before the jury, and we are going to bring to the witness stand a
light that will illumine the whole mystery of the Glandier. For
we possess the truth.