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"Remember," chimed in La Carconte, "those two could crush you at a single blow!" "How so?" inquired the abbe. "Are these persons, then, so rich and powerful?" "Do you not know their history?" "I do not. Pray relate it to me!" Caderousse seemed to reflect for a few moments, then said, "No, truly, it would take up too much time."
When Caderousse turned around, he saw behind him La Carconte, paler and trembling more than ever. "Is, then, all that I have heard really true?" she inquired. "What? That he has given the diamond to us only?" inquired Caderousse, half bewildered with joy; "yes, nothing more true! See, here it is." The woman gazed at it a moment, and then said, in a gloomy voice, "Suppose it's false?"
'Well, inquired the jeweller, 'is the cash all right? "'Yes, said Caderousse. 'Give me the pocket-book, La Carconte, and find a bag somewhere. "La Carconte went to a cupboard, and returned with an old leathern pocket-book and a bag.
'There, there, said La Carconte; 'do you hear that? upon my word, you did well to come back. 'Nevertheless, replied the jeweller, 'if by the time I have finished my supper the tempest has at all abated, I shall make another start. 'It's the mistral, said Caderousse, 'and it will be sure to last till to-morrow morning. He sighed heavily.
You offered me hospitality, and I accept it, and have returned to sleep beneath your friendly roof. Caderousse stammered out something, while he wiped away the sweat that started to his brow. La Carconte double-locked the door behind the jeweller." The Rain of Blood.
"Come, come," continued the count, "I see you are still the same, an assassin." "Reverend sir, since you know everything, you know it was not I it was La Carconte; that was proved at the trial, since I was only condemned to the galleys." "Is your time, then, expired, since I find you in a fair way to return there?" "No, reverend sir; I have been liberated by some one."
There's only the price we are not agreed about. 'How not agreed about? said Caderousse. 'I thought we agreed for the price I asked. 'That is, replied the jeweller, 'I offered 40,000 francs. 'Forty thousand, cried La Carconte; 'we will not part with it for that sum. The abbe told us it was worth 50,000. without the setting. "'What was the abbe's name? asked the indefatigable questioner.
La Carconte still kept her eyes fixed on her husband, but as he made no sign of changing his position, she extended her hard, bony hand, and touched him on the forehead. "Caderousse shuddered. The woman's lips seemed to move, as though she were talking; but because she merely spoke in an undertone, or my senses were dulled by sleep, I did not catch a word she uttered.
La Carconte muttered a few inarticulate words, then let her head again drop upon her knees, and went into a fit of ague, leaving the two speakers to resume the conversation, but remaining so as to be able to hear every word they uttered. Again the abbe had been obliged to swallow a draught of water to calm the emotions that threatened to overpower him.
It was that of La Carconte. The pistol I had heard had doubtless been fired at her. The shot had frightfully lacerated her throat, leaving two gaping wounds from which, as well as the mouth, the blood was pouring in floods. She was stone dead. I strode past her, and ascended to the sleeping chamber, which presented an appearance of the wildest disorder.
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