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All the money required by you as agent, or required by your agent, shall of course be forthcoming, and you shall quietly have also the assistance of all the secret service, if so desired. None of us must know what has become of the Countess St. Auban, now or later. You have heard me. Gentlemen, we adjourn." He stepped now to the door, and admitted the ancient colored man, with his lights.
He took my hand, but as he did so he pushed me back into the shadow from which I had stepped to proffer it him. "Peste!" he ejaculated. "The moon was full upon your face, and did St. Auban chance to look out, he must have seen you." I followed the indication of his thumb, and noted the lighted window to which he pointed.
Auban and I had together trodden but a little while ago, and past the chateau until I came to the shrubbery where Michelot faithful to the orders I had given him awaited my return.
Auban came close upon our heels. At Monnerville we slept, and next morning we were early afoot; by four o'clock in the afternoon we had reached Orleans, whence with fresh horses we pursued our journey as far as Meung, where we lay that night.
He was rich, owned his own vessel, his nets and a little house at the foot of the hill on the Retenue, whereas Father Auban had nothing. The marriage was therefore eagerly agreed upon and the wedding took place as soon as possible, as both parties were desirous for the affair to be concluded as early as convenient.
Auban's bluntness, but his avaricious instincts led him to stifle his feelings and bid the Marquis to set this proof before him. But St. Auban had a bargain to drive a preposterous one methought.
Auban, her eyes dilating with horror, forgetting her own plight as she looked at the spectacle before her. "Can these things really be in America! You submit to this, and you are men? Law? Is there any law?" She did not hear the step behind them, but presently a voice broke in.
Auban had spread abroad to lull suspicion touching the real nature of their presence until their horses should be fit to undertake the return journey to Paris, or until he should have secured the person of M. de Canaples. Towards eleven o'clock, as the lights in the hostelry opposite were burning low, I descended, and made my way out into the now deserted street.
But the Marquis has business at Chambord this evening, after which there will be no reason indeed, it will inconvenience him exceedingly to return to Blois." "What!" I cried, more and more astonished. "St. Auban is leaving Blois?" "This evening, sir."
That she was the victim simply of a daring kidnapping could, not have occurred to him. What then did she mean by talking of prisoners? "After all, you were not that amanuensis which you yourself claimed to be?" "I was not. Of course I was not. I am the Countess St. Auban. It is not necessary for me to serve any man, in my capacity." "Why, then, did you say you were?"
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