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He rolled and twisted the twenty-five one-thousand-franc notes into lamp-lighters; then, with a grand gesture, a la Poniatowski, he approached the candle, held them in the flame until they blazed, and then threw them on the hearth, where they were soon consumed. Turning towards M. Langis, he cried, "Will you now do me the honour of fighting with me?"
When he emerges, he has ten one-thousand-franc notes in his waist-lining and the promise of more. The banker knows the whole story of Jules' broken hopes; of the promised reward; the double crime. He directs Jules Tessier to further await orders at the cafe, and to ignore the whole affair. A significant hint about going forth at night makes Jules shudder.
He is paralyzed when the cashier of the "Credit Lyonnais" hands him five crisp one-thousand-franc notes. Colonel Joe Woods' check is of international potency. It is not, then, a mere dream. When the jovial Colonel is introduced to the family circle he is at home in ten minutes. His good nature carries off easily his halting French. He falls into sudden friendship with the young soldier-sculptor.
Before 5 o'clock I was in Weisbaden, and, going directly to the Casino, where they kept at all times a million francs, in addition to German money, and where the possession of large sums attract no attention, I readily exchanged my money for 350 one-thousand-franc notes. Going to Rothschild's, I bought exchange on New York for $80,000, and left the same night for London.
And even if you do, you fool, the police know everything. Your master sent you on an errand, didn't he, on Wednesday night; what did he give you? A one-thousand-franc note?" The prisoner looked at M. Lecoq in speechless amazement. "No," he stammered. "It was a five-hundred-franc note." The detective, like all great artists in a critical scene, was really moved.
He passed in review all the professions that at all suited him; they all required an outlay for first expenses. Thanks to God and to M. Guldenthal, whose loan was in the greatest danger, he was not destitute of all supplies. But a week previous he had held into the flames and burned twenty-five one-thousand-franc bills of the Bank of France.
In ten minutes or so I returned to her side, and as I did so she bent and took from the end of the croupier's rake three one-thousand-franc notes, while all eyes at the table were fixed upon her. One of the notes she tossed upon the "rouge," and the other two she crushed into her pocket. "What!" I gasped, "are you playing? And with such stakes?"
Let us suppose for a moment that night before last, at ten o'clock, he changed a one-thousand-franc note in Paris. Could the obtaining of that note have been the motive of the crime at Valfeuillu? No, for up to that hour the crime had not been committed. Where could it have come from? That is no concern of mine, at present.
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