have been committed."

The prisoner manifested the deepest attention.

"Yes, I understand you," he said, after a pause; "yes, you are right,
monsieur; it is very possible that, in such a light, I am a criminal in
the eyes of the great of the earth."

"Ah! then you know something," said Aramis, who thought he had pierced
not merely through a defect in the harness, but through the joints of it.

"No, I am not aware of anything," replied the young man; "but sometimes I
think - and I say to myself - "

"What do you say to yourself?"

"That if I were to think but a little more deeply I should either go mad
or I should divine a great deal."

"And then - and then?" said Aramis, impatiently.

"Then I leave off."

"You leave off?"

"Yes; my head becomes confused and my ideas melancholy; I feel _ennui_
overtaking me; I wish - "

"What?"