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Ralph stepped up to them, and without paying any attention to Bregeac said quietly to Marescal: "Life seems very complicated because we only see it in scraps, and those by unexpected lights. It is so with this express case. It's as entangled as a newspaper serial. The facts spring up at random, stupidly, like fireworks which will not go off in the order in which you arrange them. But when a lucid mind sets those facts in their places, all things become reasonable, simple, in perfect accord with one another, as natural as a page of history. It is that page of history that I've just read to you, Marescal. You know now the whole business; you know that Aurelie d'Asteux is innocent. Let her go."
Marescal shrugged his shoulders and growled: "No."