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Laflamme's regret was real enough up to a certain point, but, in sincerity and value, it was chasms below that of Hugh Tryon, who, even now, was getting two horses ready to give the Frenchmen their chance. After a pause Laflamme said: "She will not come here again, Carbourd? No? Ah, well, perhaps it is better so; but I should have liked to speak my thanks to her."
"Carbourd, Carbourd," she repeated, and turned her head away towards the Semaphore. Her earnestness aroused in Tryon a sudden flame of sympathy which had its origin, as he well knew, in three years of growing love. This love leaped up now determinedly perhaps unwisely; but what should a blunt soul like Hugh Tryon know regarding the best or worst time to seek a woman's heart?
"Can you see the Semaphore from here?" "Yes, there it is clear against the sky look!" But the girl did not look. She touched her eyelids with her finger-tips, as though they were fevered, and then said: "Many have escaped. They are searching for Carbourd and " "Yes, Marie?" "And M. Laflamme " "Laflamme!" he said sharply.
She was thinking of something else. She was not merely sentimental, for she said, as if she had heard the words of the Governor and Madame Solde: "Oh! if it could be saved!" There was a rustle in the shrubbery near her. She turned towards the sound. A man came quickly towards her. "I am Carbourd," he said; "I could not find the way to the Cave. They were after me. They have tracked me.
He had had nothing to eat, he had had no sleep, he suffered from a wound in his neck caused by the broken protruding branch of a tree; but he had courage, and he was struggling for liberty a tolerably sweet thing when one has it not. He found the Cave at last, and with far greater ease than Carbourd had done, because he knew the ground better, and his instinct was keener.
It was ability and money that had won over the captain of the Parroquet, coupled with the connivance of an old member of the Commune, who was now a guard. This night there was increased alertness, owing to the escape of Carbourd; and himself, if not more closely watched, was at least open to quick suspicion owing to his known friendship for Carbourd.
This speech brought another weighty matter to Carbourd's mind. He said: "I do not wish to distress you, but " "Now, Carbourd, what is the matter? Faugh! this place smells musty. What's that a tomb? Speak out, Citizen Carbourd." "It is this: Mademoiselle Wyndham is blind." Carbourd told the story with a great anxiety in his words. "The poor mademoiselle is it so? A thousand pities!
Carbourd has suffered too much the galleys, the corde, the triangle, everything but the guillotine. Carbourd has a wife and children ah, yes, you know all about it. You remember that letter she sent: I can recall every word; can you?" The girl paused, and then with a rapt sympathy in her face repeated slowly: "I am ill, and our children cry for food.
Laflamme's regret was real enough up to a certain point, but, in sincerity and value, it was chasms below that of Hugh Tryon, who, even now, was getting two horses ready to give the Frenchmen their chance. After a pause Laflamme said: "She will not come here again, Carbourd? No? Ah, well, perhaps it is better so; but I should have liked to speak my thanks to her."
I am glad: and yet and yet there was much chance that it would never be finished." "Why?" "Carbourd is gone." "Yes, I know-well?" "Well, I should be gone also were it not for this portrait. The chance came. I was tempted. I determined to finish this. I stayed." "Do you think that he will be caught?" "Not alive.
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