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On the other hand, Nicholas Poulain, bought for twenty thousand crowns by the 'politiques, gave the King and his advisers-full information of all these intrigues, and, standing in Henry's cabinet, offered, at peril of his life, if he might be confronted with the conspirators the leaders of the League within the city to prove the truth of the charges which he had made.
M. Pillerault was present at his grand-nephew's wedding for he is an uncle with money to leave; he has an income of fifteen thousand francs, though he has lived like a hermit for the last five-and-twenty years, and scarcely spends a thousand crowns well, he told Poulain all about this marriage.
Here were rough garrets, oppressively hot on a day like this, but each and all obviously serving some absent client of the hotel as temporary dwelling-place. Madame Poulain looked quite exhausted. "I think," she said plaintively, "I will remain here, monsieur, at the end of the passage. You will find every door unlocked.
There is no proper love interest in the book, the lack being supplied by the friendship between Pons and the old German musician, Schmucke. A number of subordinate biographies are interwoven with the principal story those of the banker Brunner, the Auvergnat Remonencq, the Cibots, who were Pons' porters and caterers, Doctor Poulain and Lawyer Fraisier.
"Now is it likely that Madame Poulain would make such a suggestion if she were not telling the truth? Of course her view is that this Mr. Dampier will turn up, safe and sound, when he thinks he has sufficiently punished his poor little wife for her share in their 'lovers' quarrel." But at this Gerald Burton shook his head.
When his daughter came into the room, "There's been some mistake," said Senator Burton briefly. "It's my fault, I expect. I can't have made it clear to Madame Poulain whom I meant. She has confused Mrs. Dampier with some English lady who turned up here alone late last night." "But we turned up late last night," said Nancy quickly. "Very, very late; long after midnight."
He really wished he could, for he liked his kindly visitor. "Can you suggest anything that we could do to help you?" "Yes," said the Senator frankly. "My son, Monsieur le Prefet, has not the same trust in the hotel-keeper, Poulain, that I feel. Neither, I am bound to tell you, has Mrs. Dampier.
"The lieutenant of the provost of the Ile de France." "Parfandious! am I sheriff or provost?" "No, monsieur; but you are a friend of the king, and, as such, I beg you to hear me," said a humble voice at his side. The duke turned. Near him was a man, bowing perpetually. "Who are you?" asked the duke. "Nicholas Poulain, monsieur." "And you wish to speak to me?" "I beg for that favor."
Fraisier knew, moreover, that in real affliction people lose their heads, and therefore immediately after breakfast he took up his position in the porter's lodge, and sitting there in perpetual committee with Dr. Poulain, conceived the idea of directing all Schmucke's actions himself. To obtain the important result, the doctor and the lawyer took their measures on this wise:
He could think of no motive in fact there was no motive which could prompt a false assertion on their part. As they were driving back, each silent, each full of painful misgivings, the kindly American began to wonder whether he had not met with that, if rare yet undoubted, condition known as entire loss of memory. If, as Madame Poulain had suggested, Mr.
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