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"You shall have your twenty sous, and Barbillon will not pick a quarrel with Germain," said Skeleton. "Then open your ears, for you are going to hear something choice. But here is the rain, which sends in the audience; there will be no need to go after them." In fact, the rain began to fall, the prisoners left the court, and came to take refuge in the hall, accompanied by a keeper.
"Besides, Bras-Rouge and Barbillon have need of us of themselves they can do nothing." "It is true; for while one does the business, Red-Arm must remain outside his tavern to watch, and Barbillon is not strong enough to drag the broker into the cellar alone; this old woman will kick." "Did not La Chouette tell us, laughingly, that she kept the Maitre d'Ecole as a boarder in this cellar?"
"That suits me; but it is a pity to lose my ration, and still more that my sister cannot profit by it. Neither she nor her children often see meat, except at the butcher's door." "Come, come quick, Skeleton is making a beast of himself; he is capable of devouring the whole with Barbillon."
Barbillon, charged as spy to announce the approach of the superintendent, placed himself near the door. The Skeleton, taking his pipe from his mouth, said to the Big Cripple: "Do you know a young man named Germain, with blue eyes, brown hair, and the air of a swell cove?" "Germain here!" cried Cripple, whose features expressed at once surprise, hatred, anger. "You do know him, then?"
Leaving on one side the manifold but purely electrical consequences of this and the numerous researches relating to the production or to the properties of the waves some of which, those of MM. Sarrazin and de la Rive, Righi, Turpain, Lebedeff, Decombe, Barbillon, Drude, Gutton, Lamotte, Lecher, etc., are, however, of the highest order I shall only mention here the studies more particularly directed to the establishment of the identity of the electromagnetic and the luminous waves.
"You know well why not to startle these bandits whom you have for so long a time promised to deliver to us." "And I am going to deliver them to you, M. Narcisse; in one hour's time you shall have them bound, and without much trouble, for there are three women. Barbillon and Nicholas Martial are as ferocious as tigers, but cowardly as chickens."
It is La Chouette who came and proposed to me to entice the broker here, when she learned through my son, that Morel, the lapidary, who lived in the Rue du Temple, cut real instead of false stones, and that Mother Mathieu had often about her jewels of value. I accepted the affair, proposing for La Chouette to add Barbillon and the Martials, so as to have the whole gang in hand."
La Chouette did not remain here, because she had an appointment at two o'clock, near the Observatory, with the tall man in black, on whose account she carried off this girl from the country, with the assistance of the Maitre d'Ecole and Tortillard; and it was even Barbillon who drove the hack which this tall man in black hired for the occasion.
"Oh! talking with Germain?" said Skeleton, looking attentively at Pique-Vinaigre, without pausing in his mastication. "Yes!" answered the patterer. Isn't he a fool! this Germain! I used to think that he was a spy, but he is too much of a flat for that!" "Oh! you think so?" said Skeleton, exchanging a rapid and significant glance with Nicholas and Barbillon. "I am as sure of it as that I see ham!
It needed a violent struggle to take from him the bleeding remains of his accomplice, and to secure him. After a vigorous resistance, they succeeded in transporting him to the lower room of the tavern, a dull, gloomy apartment, lighted by a single window. There were found, handcuffed and guarded, Barbillon, Nicholas Martial, his mother and sister.
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