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She had no time to temporize or to reflect; she wrote to him immediately, giving the letter in charge of a youth in the neighborhood. "The gentleman says you may rely upon him," said the messenger on his return. That very evening Marie-Anne heard someone rap at her door. It was the kind-hearted old man who had come to her relief. He remained at the Borderie nearly a fortnight.
The first good impulse of her life made her heart beat more quickly. She did not stop to consider; she forgot the danger to which she exposed herself, and in a ringing voice she cried: "Help! help!" Eleven o'clock was sounding; the whole country was asleep. The farm-house nearest the Borderie was half a league distant. The voice of Blanche was lost in the deep stillness of the night.
Through him, Blanche and her aunt learned that suspicion pointed to the deceased Chupin. Had he not been seen prowling around the Borderie on the very evening that the crime was committed? The testimony of the young peasant who had warned Jean Lacheneur seemed decisive. The motive was evident; at least, everyone thought so.
When a special effort could only give him the one town of Calais, how could he ever conquer all France? See on this A. de la Borderie, Hist. de Brétagne, iii., 507, et seq. At the conclusion of the truce of Calais in 1347, Edward III and England were at the height of their military reputation. Perhaps the nation was in even a stronger position than the monarch.
Make your appearance in Sairmeuse to-morrow as if you had just returned from Piedmont; go to the notary, take possession of your property, and install yourself at the Borderie." Marie-Anne shuddered. "Live in Chanlouineau's house," she faltered. "I alone!" "Heaven will protect you, my dear child. I can see only advantages in your installation at the Borderie.
She was about to approach the house, when a peculiar whistle rooted her to the spot. She looked about her, and, in spite of the darkness, she discerned in the footpath leading to the Borderie, a man laden with articles which she could not distinguish. Almost immediately a woman, certainly Marie-Anne, left the house and advanced to meet him.
Abbe Midon was wondering what they were to do, when Marie-Anne told him of the will which Chanlouineau had made in her favor, and of the money concealed beneath the hearth-stone in the best chamber. "I might go to the Borderie at night," suggested Marie-Anne, "enter the house, which is unoccupied, obtain the money and bring it here. I have a right to do so, have I not?"
On the R. of this street, No. 26, Rue Geoffrey l'Asnier, is the fine portal of the seventeenth-century Hôtel de Châlons, where the whilom ambassador to England, Antoine de la Borderie, lived . Yet further on in the Rue François Miron is the Rue de Jouy: at No. 7, is the charming Hôtel d'Aumont by Hardouin Mansard.
The Widow Chupin knew how to write, and Lacheneur dictated this letter: "Madame la Duchesse I shall expect you at my establishment to-morrow between twelve and four o'clock. It is on business connected with the Borderie. If at five o'clock I have not seen you, I shall carry to the post a letter for the duke." "And if she comes what am I to say to her?" asked the astonished widow.
So, before evening, all the legal requirements were complied with, and Marie-Anne was formally installed at the Borderie. She was alone in Chanlouineau's house alone! Night came on and a great terror seized her heart.
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