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`` How and when was it stolen ? '' I asked . `` Some time during the morning , '' she replied . `` M. de Talleyrand gave the document to M. de Marsan at nine o'clock , telling him that he wanted the copy by midday . M. de Marsan set to work at once , laboured uninterruptedly until about eleven o'clock , when a loud altercation , followed by cries of ` Murder ! ' and of ` Help ! ' and proceeding from the corridor outside his door , caused him to run out of the room in order to see what was happening .