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What gave colour to these suspicions was the fact that Bouvet's hands "were horribly swollen" when he appeared before Réal the next day, and also the strange form of the declaration which he was reputed to have dictated at midnight, just as he was restored to life.
She took it, staring at me with eyes wide with wonder, and then she opened it mechanically. "Monsieur," she said with great dignity, "do you mind telling me where you obtained this?" "I found it, Mademoiselle," I answered; and as I spoke I felt Nick's fingers on my arm. "You found it? Where? How, Monsieur?" "At Madame Bouvet's, the house where we stayed."
I walked for some time it may have been half an hour aimlessly, and finally decided it would be best to go back to Madame Bouvet's and await the issue with as much calmness as possible. He might not, after all, have caught the fellow. There were few people in the dark streets, but at length I met a man who gave me directions, and presently found my way back to my lodging place.
As our last track to the southward was within a few degrees of Bouvet's discovery in the longitude assigned to it, and about three or four degrees to the southward, should there be any land thereabout, it must be a very inconsiderable island.
The wind abating and veering to the south, on the first of March, we steered west, in order to get farther from Mr Bouvet's track, which was but a few degrees to the east of us, being at this time in the latitude of 46° 44' S., longitude 33° 20' E., in which situation we found the variation to be 23° 36' W. It is somewhat remarkable, that all the time we had northerly winds, which were regular and constant for several days, the weather was always thick and cloudy; but, as soon as they came south of west, it cleared up, and was fine and pleasant.
But presently I began to reflect upon the consequences of being taken in such a situation by a constable and dragged into the light of a public examination. I put this to Nick as plainly as I could, and was declaring my intention of going back to Madame Bouvet's, when the sound of voices arrested me.
On the 3d of March, being then in the latitude of 54° 4' S., longitude 13° E., which is the latitude of Bouvet's discovery, and half a degree to the eastward of it, and not seeing the least sign of land, either now or since we have been in this parallel, I gave over looking for it, and hauled away to the northward.
And suddenly, as he spoke of Les Isles, I remembered the note Mademoiselle had given me for him, and I apologized for my forgetfulness. He read it, and dropped it with an exclamation. "My daughter tells me that you have returned to her a miniature which she lost, Monsieur," he said. "I had that pleasure," I answered. "And that you found this miniature at Madame Bouvet's. Was this the case?"
As I walked back to Madame Bouvet's I made up my mind that there was but the one thing to do, to go at once to Monsieur de Saint-Gre's plantation. Finding Madame still waiting in the gallery, I asked her to direct me thither. "You have but to follow the road that runs southward along the levee, and some three leagues will bring you to it, Monsieur. You will inquire for Monsieur de Saint-Gre."
She took it, staring at me with eyes wide with wonder, and then she opened it mechanically. "Monsieur," she said with great dignity, "do you mind telling me where you obtained this?" "I found it, Mademoiselle," I answered; and as I spoke I felt Nick's fingers on my arm. "You found it? Where? How, Monsieur?" "At Madame Bouvet's, the house where we stayed."
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