CHAPTER 38Upon pondering Valbois' opinions, I recognized they were thatmuch better the more certain it appeared I would be beheld withsuspicion; the less my guilt, the wiser his suggestions; the onething that spoke in my behalf, the recommendation I had made toDubreuil at the outset of our promenade, which had, so they toldme, been unsatisfactorily explained by the article of his death,would not appear so conclusive as I might hope; whereupon Ipromptly made my decision; I imparted it to Valbois.
"Would," said he, "that my friend had charged me with somedispositions favorable to you, I should carry out such requestswith the greatest pleasure; I am sorry indeed he did not tell me'twas to you he owed the advice to guard his room; but he saidnothing of the sort, not a word did I have from him
