“On returning home yesterday evening from carrying to you Savar's answer, I found Christophe waiting for me. I read to him Mr. Poupart's narrative. He said there were many things true in it, but there were others that he had not any knowledge of, particularly the details respecting the other prisoners. Christophe expressed himself farther to the following purport:— I well knew that the captain suffered something unpleasant in the visits that were made by Savary and Pacq, but I did not know that they struck him; neither did I know that Savar had taken Mr. Poupart up into the chamber on the fatal day; indeed I can hardly believe it, for S. must have been aware how highly reprehensible it would have rendered him, had he been surprised. […]