noon
I am the Lesperon who was at Lavedan . If you doubt me , ask this gentleman , who arrested me there last night . Ask him , too , why we have halted here . Ask him , if you will , to show you the letter that you left at Lavedan making an assignation here before noon to-day , which letter I received . '' The suspicion faded from Marsac 's eyes , and they grew round with wonder as he listened to this prodigious array of evidence . Lesperon looked on in no less amazement , yet I am sure from the manner of his glance that he did not recognize in me the man that had succoured him at Mirepoix . That , after all , was natural enough ; for the minds of men in such reduced conditions as had been his upon that night are not prone to receive very clear impressions , and still less prone to retain such impressions as they do receive .