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I sold him a horse , and he paid me for it . '' `` Very well , '' said Bézard , with some hesitation . `` Let us pass to the eighth of April . At six o'clock that morning you drove to Thillot-sous-les-Côtes , where you met a stranger at the entrance to the village , and walked with him , and held a long and earnest conversation . '' Paul was silent for a moment . The incident recalled was one that he would fain have forgotten , one the truth of which he intended at all hazards to conceal . `` I admit that I went to Thillot in secret , '' he answered in a changed voice .