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At twelve o'clock application was made to Monsieur Tiphaine , as a judge sitting in chambers , against Brigaut and the widow Lorrain for having abducted Pierrette Lorrain , a minor , from the house of her legal guardian . In this way the bold lawyer became the aggressor and made Rogron the injured party . He spoke of the matter from this point of view in the court-house . The judge postponed the hearing till four o'clock . Needless to describe the excitement in the town . Monsieur Tiphaine knew that by three o'clock the consultation of doctors would be over and their report drawn up ; he wished Auffray , as surrogate-guardian , to be at the hearing armed with that report . The announcement of Rogron 's marriage and the sacrifices made to it by Sylvie in the contract alienated two important supporters from the brother and sister , namely , -- Mademoiselle Habert and the colonel , whose hopes were thus annihilated .