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Updated: June 4, 2025
Do you not understand weak natures like his? He is the glove, I the strong hand beneath it." The doctor did not argue this point, but merely murmured, "Let us hope that it is so." "Should we have any opposition," resumed Mascarin, "it will come from Catenac. I may be able to force him into co-operation with us, but his heart will not be in the enterprise."
Catenac listened to all these exact details with an unpleasant feeling gnawing at his heart, for he saw that his associates knew everything, and he had relied upon again securing their confidence by furnishing them with those details which were evidently already known to them. Mascarin, however, affected not to notice his surprise, and went on with his narrative.
"Because," replied he slowly, "both you and I distrust Catenac. When did you see him last?" "More than three months ago." "True, and I allow that he seems to be acting fairly toward his old associates; but you will admit that, in keeping away thus, his conduct is without excuse, for he has made his fortune; and though he pretends to be poor, he is certainly a man of wealth."
The Duke offered him a heavy sum to throw up his appointment, but he refused, saying he did not work for money, but from love for his profession." "Which is quite true," interrupted Catenac. "However," continued Mascarin, "to cut short my narrative, the Duke, on the refusal of Lecoq to act, applied to Catenac."
Even convicts keep faith with each other, and I had not thought you so utterly infamous." "Then why have you forced me to act contrary to my wishes?" This reply exasperated Mascarin so much that he grasped Catenac by the throat, and shook him violently. "I made use of you, you viper," said he, "because I had placed you in such a position that you could not harm us.
Catenac had for some time past been striving to decipher the meaning hidden behind the inscrutable countenance of Mascarin, but in vain. "Let us get on," said the lawyer impatiently. "All that you have told me I shall hear later on in the course of the inquiry."
"Not yet," answered he gently, "and I beg that you will permit me to go on." "But surely we have some voice in the matter," faltered Catenac. "That is enough," exclaimed Mascarin angrily, "Am not I the head of this association? Do you think," he continued in tones of deep sarcasm, "that we cannot speak openly before the Marquis?" Hortebise and the lawyer resignedly resumed their seats.
But he insisted on my taking it, saying that he would see me again soon, and that Catenac would communicate with me. He left me less interested in the search than in who this old man could possibly be." Tantaine felt that Perpignan was telling the truth. "Did you not try and find out that?" asked he.
Do you now know why at this last moment I appeal to you, and not to Catenac for assistance? If only one out of two operations that I have fully explained to you succeeds, our fortune is made." "I follow you exactly." "The question now is whether the chance of success is sufficiently great to warrant our going on with these undertakings. Think it over and let me have your opinion."
How can the Duke possibly trace any connection between this miserable writer and Catenac?" "Yes, I think that it would be a difficult task." "Besides," pursued Mascarin, "what have we to fear from the Duke de Champdoce? Nothing, as far as I can see. Is he not as much in our power as the woman he formerly loved Diana de Mussidan?
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