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Levendale, who had listened to Ayscough with great and, as it seemed to Lauriston, with very watchful attention, pushed aside a letter he was writing, and looked from one to the other of his callers. "Where is my book?" he asked. "It's all right all safe, mister," said Melky. "It's locked up in a cupboard, in the parlour where it was found, and the key's in my pocket."
Ayscough There'd ha' been an entry in the books if it had been taken in pawn, or bought across the counter and there's no entry. Now then who'd left it there?" Another official had come up to the group one of the men who had questioned Lauriston the night before. He turned to Lauriston as Melky finished. "You don't know anything about this book?" he asked. "Nothing except that Mr.
Her Ladies of the Palace, whose number was soon raised to twelve, and later still more augmented, were at first only four: Madame de Talhouet, Madame de Lucay, Madame de Lauriston, and Madame de Remusat. These ladies, too, aroused the hottest jealousies, and soon they gave rise to a sort of parody of the questions of vanity that agitated the Emperor's family.
Lauriston flushed hotly with sheer indignation. "That's all nonsense what the police say!" he exclaimed. "I've found out who gave those two rings to my mother! I can prove it! I don't care a hang for the police and their marks those rings are mine!" Purdie laid a quiet hand on Lauriston's arm. "None of us know yet what you've done or found out at Peebles about the rings," he said. "Tell us!
"But that's just what's to be expected, mister! they'll never let you out o' their sight until one of two things happen!" "What things?" asked Lauriston. "Either you'll have to prove, beyond all doubt, that them rings is yours, and was your poor mother's before you," answered Melky, "or we shall have to put a hand on the chap that scragged my uncle. That's a fact!
After dinner, which the First Consul bolted with his usual rapidity, he rose from the table, followed by his officers, with the exception of General Rapp, who remained with Madame Josephine and Hortense. About seven o'clock the First Consul entered his carriage with Lannes, Berthier, and Lauriston, to go to the Opera.
But Melky let three-quarters of an hour elapse before he went to the desk in the outer shop. He sipped a cup of coffee; he smoked several cigarettes; it was quite a long time before he emerged into Praed Street, buttoning his overcoat. And without appearing to see anything, he at once saw the man who had followed Lauriston and himself from the Coroner's Court.
The man in front crossed the road, and strode towards the portico of the hotel and Zillah suddenly made up her mind. "We've got to speak to that man!" she said. "Don't ask why, now you'll know in a few minutes. Ask him if he'll speak to me?" Lauriston caught up the stranger as he set foot on the steps leading to the hotel door.
He did not even listen to the noise outside; he dictated his orders in a calm, firm voice, and his face was as immovable as usual. "Marshal Macdonald," said the emperor, concluding his instructions, "is commissioned to defend the city and the suburbs; for this purpose he will have his own corps, and those of Lauriston, Poniatowsky, and Keynier.
Melky, coming in a few minutes after Lauriston had arrived, and sitting down by him, nudged his elbow as he pointed to these individuals. "There's the fellows what sits on the jury, mister!" whispered Melky. "Half-a-crown each they gets for the job and a nice mess they makes of it, sometimes. They've the power to send a man for trial for his life, has them chaps all depends on their verdict.
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