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among the remaining twenty per cent who
survived to perhaps an even worse fate?
An hour later I had applied and obtained
from the prison authorities the permission to visit
Madame Réquin. She recognized me at once
and gave me such a warm welcome that I felt
very uncomfortable indeed before the prison
official who had accompanied me to her cell.
The boy was in Normandy and very happy, she
had just received excellent news about him from
his foster parents who loved him tenderly.
Unfortunately she could not lay her hands on their
address, there had been some confusion in her
register. It was just possible though not likely,
that her husband might remember their address.
I felt sure the boy was dead but to leave
nothing undone I said sternly that unless I received
the address of the foster parents in forty-eight
hours I would denounce her to the authorities for
child murder and also for the theft of a valuable
diamond brooch left in her custody by me. She
managed to squeeze a few tears from her cold
glittering eyes and swore that she had not stolen
the brooch, she had kept it as a souvenir from this
lovely young lady whom she had nursed as
tenderly as if she had been her own daughter.
“You have forty-eight hours,” said I, leaving
Madame Réquin to her meditations.
The morning of the second day I received the
visit of Madame Réquin’s worthy husband with
the pawn ticket of the brooch and the names of
three villages in Normandy where Madame used
to dispatch her babies that year. I wrote at once
to the three maires of the respective villages with
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