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The earliest definite picture was that of himself, a small but vastly important figure, nursing a heavy heart in a dark corner of a fiacre.
When we once more came out into the open air, the stars had disappeared and the air was heavy with the damps of approaching daybreak. Fortunately, we caught an empty fiacre in the next street and, as we were nearer the Rue du Faubourg Montmartre than the Chaussée d' Antin, Dalrymple set me down first. "Adieu, Damon," he said, laughingly, as we shook hands through the window.
At the door of the hotel: "I'm sailing Wednesday," said Max Tack. "You you won't forget me?" "Oh, no no!" "You'll call me up or run into the office when you get to New York?" "Oh, yes!" He walked with her to the lift, said good-bye and returned to the fiacre with the tinkling bell. There was a stunned sort of look in his face. The fiacre meter registered two francs seventy.
I am better now. Yes give me your arm, count, I am a little weak. I thank you it supports me." The door of No. 4 was at last opened. The cavaliere descended the stairs very slowly, supported by Marescotti, whose looks expressed the deepest compassion. A fiacre was called from the piazza. "The Palazzo Trenta," said Count Marescotti to the driver, handing in the cavaliere.
"Mademoiselle was ill in the same way last time," several sympathetic voices cried out, and some of the women caressed her gently. "Let me get home," she said, half-shouting, and she clung to me. "My hat my gloves quick!" "Yes, yes," I said; "I will get a fiacre." "Why not my victoria?" she questioned imperiously. "Because you must go in a closed carriage," I said firmly.
Immediately on his return the manager, to whom had come an order from the Elysée during the day, took up a pair of pocket pistols, and went down into the vestibule, which communicates by means of a few steps with the courtyard. Shortly afterwards the door leading to the street opened, a fiacre entered, a man who carried a large portfolio alighted.
To those whom it was necessary to employ upon the occasion, he contrived to unite one of the clerks of the minister of the police, who forged his signature with exact imitation, to an order for removing the body of sir Sidney, from the Temple to the prison of the Conciergerie: after this was accomplished, on the day after that on which the inspector of gaols was to visit the Temple and Conciergerie, a ceremony, which is performed once a month in Paris, two gentlemen of tried courage and address, who were previously instructed by colonel Phelipeaux, disguised as officers of the marechaussee, presented themselves in a fiacre at the Temple, and demanded the delivery of sir Sidney, at the same time showing the forged order for his removal.
Lanyard forgot his annoyance long enough to salute that grim pile with a mocking bow, thinking of the men therein who would give half their possessions to lay hands on him who was only a few hundred yards distant, marooned in the rain!... In its own good time a night-prowling fiacre ambled up and veered over to his hail.
The losers, of course, vented their feelings in the most blasphemous execrations; while I quietly collected all my winnings, and returned home in a fiacre, with Talbot, who took the precaution of requesting the attendance of two gendarmes. These were each rewarded with a Napoleon. "Now, Talbot," said I, "I solemnly swear, as I hope to go to heaven, never to play again."
To-morrow night you shall escape, and I will be with a fiacre at the corner of the street ready to receive you. I will take you to my house, and no one, not even my sister, shall know that you are with me.
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