Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 18, 2025
But already a sudden inspiration had, like a flash of lightning, cleared up the mystery in Daniel's mind. "Ah! I wish I could see it too! Captain, I beseech you show me that letter!" The old officer began almost to think that Champcey was really not in his right mind. He answered, "I do not have it; but it is among your papers in the bureau for Personal Affairs."
Champcey, and you wanted to earn your money. You got a certain sum of money in advance; and you were to receive a larger sum after his death." "I swear" "Don't swear! The sum in your possession, which you cannot account for, is positive proof of what I say." "Alas! I possess nothing. You may inquire. You may order a search."
If they are frightened, good-night. They will vanish before you can put out your hand to seize them." "Champcey might be questioned; perhaps he could furnish some information." But the doctor rose, and stopped him with an air of fury, "Question my patient! Kill him, you mean! No! If I am to have the wonderful good luck to pull him through, no one shall come near his bed for a month.
Some of them thought he had brought back with him from Kamboja the germ of one of those implacable diseases which demoralize the strongest, and which break out suddenly, carrying a man off in a few hours. "You ought not to become a misanthrope, my dear Champcey," they would say. "Come, for Heaven's sake shake off that sadness, which might make an end of you before you are aware of it!"
"Did he ever have anything to do with Lieut. Champcey? Has he been reprimanded by him, or punished? Has he ever spoken to him?" "Ah, commandant! that is more than I can tell." The old doctor slightly shrugged his shoulders, and said in a tone of indifference, "You see, gentlemen, this deposition is too vague to prove anything.
"One day I happened to be on a yardarm, side by side with Crochard, helping the sailors to furl a sail, when I saw him drop a huge block, which fell upon Lieut. Champcey, and knocked him down. "No one else had noticed it; and Crochard instantly pulled up the block again.
"Is the idea of becoming my wife so very revolting to you?" "I have told you, sir, I am no longer free." "Yes, to be sure! You love M. Daniel Champcey. You love him. He knows it; for you had told him so, no doubt: and yet he has forsaken you." Sometimes, in her innermost heart, Henrietta had accused Daniel. But what she thought she would permit no one else to think.
And as he continued his account, warming up with its plausibility, he recovered the impudence, or rather the insolence, which seemed to be the prominent feature of his character. "Do you know the officer whom you have wounded?" asked the magistrate when he had finished. "Of course, I do, as I have made the voyage with him. He is Lieut. Champcey." "Have you any complaint against him?"
"Oh! you need only look at him" "Yes, indeed! Well, as I was thus watching him, I instinctively recalled the two remarkable accidents which so nearly killed our poor Champcey, that block that fell upon him from the skies, and that shipwreck in the Dong-Nai. But I was still doubtful. After what you tell me, I am sure." He seized the lieutenant's hand; and, pressing it almost painfully, he went on,
"This is fabulous, Sarah writing such things! She did not even disguise her handwriting, she who never committed an imprudence in her life; she ruins herself. And she signs her name!" But he had seen enough. He folded up the letters, and, rising again, said to Champcey, "No doubt now! Sarah loves you madly, insanely. Ah! how she does love!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking