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But let it be a lesson for the remainder of your life. You may go now, and remember it is useless to try and hide the truth; it always comes to light!" The two last depositions awakened in M. Daburon's mind some slight gleams of hope. In the midst of darkness, the humblest rush-light acquires brilliancy. "I will go at once to Bougival, sir, if you approve of this step," suggested Gevrol.
She was then returning from Bougival with a basketful of purchases." "You are sure of the hour, sir?" inquired Gevrol. "Perfectly, and for this reason; the two witnesses who furnished me with this fact, a woman named Tellier and a cooper who lives hard by, alighted from the omnibus which leaves Marly every hour, when they perceived the widow in the cross-road, and hastened to overtake her.
'I am thinking, she replied, 'that this has been one of those days of which we have but few in life. My heart beat so that it felt as if it would break my ribs. "I saw her on the following Sunday, and the next Sunday, and every Sunday. I took her to Bougival, Saint-Germain, Maisons-Lafitte, Poissy; to every suburban resort of lovers.
"You are really very much in love with her?" he asked. "Madly." "Go, then," and he passed his hand across his forehead as if to chase a thought, then opened his mouth as if to say something; but he only pressed my hand, and left me hurriedly, saying: "Till to-morrow, then!" It seemed to me as if the train did not move. I reached Bougival at eleven.
Some said the money would be found in bank bills hidden away in the furniture, others that the old man had slipped them into his books. The sale of the effects exhibited a spectacle of the most extraordinary precautions on the part of the heirs. "Ah, mademoiselle," cried La Bougival, returning from the first session in despair, "I shall not go again.
Seven or eight times during the day she went up to her room, always to find the young viscount writing, tearing up what he had written, and then writing again to her, no doubt! The next morning when she woke La Bougival gave her the following letter:
The young gentleman of the house took a fancy to me, and determined to make me his mistress. I discouraged him in a way; but he persisted in his loathsome attention, until one night he broke into my room, and I was compelled to shout for help with all my might, before I could get rid of him. "The next day I left that house; but I tried in vain to find another situation in Bougival.
M. Daburon began to despair of gaining the least enlightenment, when some one brought the wife of a grocer of Bougival, at whose shop the victim used to deal, and a child thirteen years old, who knew, it was said, something positive. The grocer's wife first made her appearance. She had heard Widow Lerouge speak of having a son still living.
As soon as La Bougival comes back go down to the pagoda, here is the key, lift the marble top of the Boule buffet and you will find a letter beneath it, sealed and addressed to you; take it and come back here, for I cannot die easy unless I see it in your hands.
"Madame Bougival," said the doctor, "close the iron gate and allow no one to enter; even the dying, it seems, can have no peace. Prepare mustard poultices and apply them to the soles of Monsieur's feet." "Your uncle is not dead," said the abbe, "and he may live some time longer. He wishes for absolute silence, and no one beside him but his niece.
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