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I suppose you have come to get that bill of sale," said Barbet, replying to the salutation of his victim. "Here it is." And, to Baron Bourlac's great astonishment, he held out the document, which the baron took, saying, "I do not understand." "Didn't you pay me?" said the usurer. "Are you paid?" "Yes, your grandson took the money to the sheriff this morning."
Godefroid left him, took a cab, and went back as fast as he could to the boulevard du Mont-Parnasse, filled with horror as he remembered that indictment signed with Bourlac's name, the bloody drama ending on the scaffold, and Madame de la Chanterie's imprisonment at Bicetre.
In the month of September he was walking down the great avenue of the Champs Elysees, thinking, as he passed the end of the rue Marbeuf, of Dr. Halpersohn. "I might," thought he, "go and see him and ask if he ever cured Bourlac's daughter. What a voice, what immense talents she had! and she wanted to consecrate herself to God!"
Godefroid had given Monsieur Joseph, on his return from the boulevard du Mont-Parnasse the night before, the notes confided to him by Auguste, and Monsieur Joseph had spent part of the night in reading the first volume of Baron Bourlac's work. The next morning after breakfast Madame de la Chanterie told her neophyte that he should, if his resolution still held good, be put to work at once.
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