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Updated: June 11, 2025
She had been waiting day after day for M. de Brevan, who was to bring it to her; and for nothing in the world would she have been absent when he came at last. But she waited for him in vain that day, and four days after.
M. de Brevan did not look upon it in that light. A nervous shiver, which he could hardly conceal, ran down his backbone; drops of perspiration broke out on his temples; and he turned deadly pale. "Fifty thousand dollars! That is an enormous sum." "Oh, yes!" replied Daniel in the most careless manner. And, looking at the clock, he added, "Half-past three. Come, Maxime, be quick.
Daniel had been absent for nearly a year now, and during all that time she had written to him every month; but she had received from him only two letters through M. de Brevan, and what letters! Very polite, very cold, and almost without a word of hope. If Daniel upon his return should abandon her!
As he left, his head was in a whirl, his thoughts in a maze. His life and his happiness were at stake; and a single word would decide his fate in spite of all he could do. A cab was passing; he hailed it, jumped in, and cried to the driver, "Go quick, I say! You shall have five francs! No. 61 Rue Laffitte!" That was the house where Maxime de Brevan lived.
And her confidence in me was so great, that, if she had any presentiment, she suppressed it for my sake." Daniel had, to be sure, a certain assurance now, that Maxime de Brevan would not be able to escape from justice. But what did it profit him to be avenged, when it was too late, long after Henrietta should have been forced to seek in suicide the only refuge from Brevan's persecution?
"I saw her as distinctly as I see you. It was four o'clock in the morning, mind!" "Is it possible? And what did you do?" "I followed her." M. de Brevan nearly let the brush fall, with which he was polishing his finger-nails; but he mastered his confusion so promptly, that Daniel did not perceive it. "Ah! you followed her," he said in a voice which all his efforts could not steady entirely.
Moreover, she called in to her assistance a light shining high above all this terrible darkness, the remembrance of Daniel. She had doubted him for an instant; but her faith had, after all, remained intact and perfect. Her reason told her, that, if he had really loved Sarah Brandon, her enemies, M. Elgin and M. de Brevan, would not have taken such pains to make her believe it.
M. de Brevan had started up, and was standing, with his hat on, near the door. As the servant left, he said, "I am running away." "Why?" "Because the count must not find me here. You would be compelled to introduce me to him; he might remember my name; and, if he were to tell Miss Sarah that I am your friend, all would be lost."
A young man got out, rang the bell, and entered. "He is Maxime de Brevan," murmured the old man. Then he added in a savage voice, "I knew he would come, the scoundrel! to see if the charcoal had done its work." But the same moment the young man came out again, and jumped into the carriage, which quickly drove off. "Aha!" laughed the merchant. "No chance for you, my fine fellow!
But the investigation had been carried on with such rare sagacity, that Daniel could furnish the prosecution only a single new fact, the surrender of his entire fortune into the hands of M. de Brevan. And even this fact must needs, on account of its extreme improbability, remain untold in an investigation which was based upon logic alone.
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