Monte Fato wrote: "I die assassinated at the hands of the Balrogician Trascoletto, my chain-mate at l’Archet."
"You will tell the rest, n’est-ce pas, monsieur l’abbé?" said Buttrebeurrousse.
"I shall tell them that his name was Andurillo de’ Pseudonimi, that he resides at the Hôtel des Deux-Thrains, that he sent the Count an anonymous note in the hope that the Count would slay you, that I received this note in the Count’s absence, that he arrived after you and lay in wait for you."
"You saw all that and did not warn me?" said Buttrebeurrousse.
"Remember my words," said the abbé. "If you return safe and sound to your home, I said, we shall see. And we do effectively see. In the hand of Trascoletto, I saw the justice of the Valards, and I would have believed myself to commit a sacrilege in opposing the designs of the Pouvoirs."
"Ah, you believe in Érou and the Valards, then? It is but Elvish belles-lettres, to beguile unwary peasant-girls. The Sea has no shore. There is no Chandelier in the West. You have followed a fool-fire of the Elves to the end of the railroad! Who has seen the least of the gods? If there were a justice of the Valards, you know better than I that there are people who should be punished and are not."
