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Whosoever needs a loan of money, or a complete suit of clothes in the top of the fashion, a pair of ladies' boots, or an Indian cashmere; a porcelain table service or a good picture; whosoever desires diamonds, curtains, laces, a house in the country, or a provision of wood for winter fires may procure all these, and many other things besides, at Mme. Charman's. Mme.
Tymperley breathed not a word to the widow; spoke not a word to any one at all, except the lawyer, who quietly wound up his affairs, and the sister whose children must needs go without avuncular aid. During the absence of his friendly neighbours after Mr. Charman's death, he quietly disappeared. The poor gentleman was then close upon forty years old.
"I must ask you to pardon me," said he to the old justice, "for hurrying you on so and making you one of my trade; but your assistance might have been very useful at Madame Charman's, and will be indispensable when we get fairly on Tremorel's track." They went across the square and into the wine shop at the corner of the Rue des Martyrs.
Earliest daylight made this suggestion look very insubstantial; on the other hand, it strengthened his memory of Mr. Charman's virtual indebtedness to him. He jumped out of bed to reach the cheque, and for an hour lay with it in his hand. Then he rose and dressed mechanically. After the day's work he rambled in a street of large shops.
I shall never forget his grief at my poor husband's death. I'm telling Mrs. Loring about Mr. Tymperley, Ada. She addressed her married daughter, a quiet young woman who reproduced Mrs. Charman's good-natured countenance, with something more of intelligence, the reflective serenity of a higher type. 'I'm sorry to see him looking so far from well, remarked Mrs. Weare, in reply.
"You're a wonderful housekeeper, Emarine," he said. Then his face grew grave. "Got a present for your mother yet, Emarine?" "Oh, yes, long ago. I got 'er a black shawl down t' Charman's. She's b'en wantin' one." He shuffled his feet about a little. "Unh-hunh. Yuh that is I reckon yuh ain't picked out any present fer fer my mother, have yuh, Emarine?" "No," she replied, with cold distinctness.
'The charman's gone, replied the boy, who looked upon his master the chairman of the Stir-it-stiff Union as the impersonification of all earthly greatness. 'Dash your impittance, growled Jog, slinking back into the nursery; 'I'll pay you off! Gustavus James's internal qualms being at length appeased, Mr. Jogglebury Crowdey returned to bed, but not to sleep sleep there was none for him.
Charman he put blind faith, with the result that one morning he found himself shivering on the edge of ruin; the touch of confirmatory news, and over he went. No one was aware of it but Mr. Charman himself and he, a few days later, lay sick unto death. Mr. Charman's own estate suffered inappreciably from what to his friend meant sheer disaster. And Mr.
Charman's emissary opened the door; there was a loud rustling of silks along the corridor; and Jenny appeared in all her glory. She was no longer the fresh and pretty minx whom Hector had known the provoking large-eyed Parisian demoiselle, with haughty head and petulant grace. A single year had withered her, as a too hot summer does the roses, and had destroyed her fragile beauty beyond recall.
Charman's profession, she has more than once had business with M. Lecoq; she has need of him and fears him as she does fire. She, therefore, welcomed the detective and his companion whom she took for one of his colleagues somewhat as the supernumerary of a theatre would greet his manager if the latter chanced to pay him a visit in his humble lodgings. She was expecting them.
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