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You might summons them to appear while the court is sitting , M. Camusot ; take down their depositions before four o'clock , send in your report to-night , and we will give our decision in the morning before the court sits . '' `` We will settle what course to pursue while the barristers are pleading , '' said Vice-President Blondet , addressing Camusot . And with that the three judges put on their robes and went into court . At noon Mlle. Armande and the Bishop reached the Hotel d'Esgrignon ; Chesnel and M. Couturier were there to meet them . There was a sufficiently short conference between the prelate and Mme. du Croisier 's director , and the latter set out at once to visit his charge . At eleven o'clock that morning du Croisier received a summons to appear in the examining magistrate 's office between one and two in the afternoon . Thither he betook himself , consumed by well-founded suspicions .