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The sight of this child increased Chupin's indignation. "So there's a child?" he growled. "The rascal not only deserts his wife, but he leaves his child to starve! We may as well make a note of that: and when we settle up our accounts, he shall pay dearly for his villainy." With this threat he brusquely entered the shop. "What do you wish, sir?" asked the woman.
Ah! a moment's reflection would have enabled you to understand the reason of his solicitude, and would probably have given you the key to the whole mystery." Lecoq, who was such a brilliant casuist in the Widow Chupin's hovel, who was so full of confidence in himself, and so earnest in expounding his theories to simple Father Absinthe Lecoq hung his head abashed and did not utter a word.
If he had desired to augment the rage of Mme. Blanche, he had good reason to be satisfied. "And this is the woman who has alienated Martial's heart from me!" she exclaimed. "It is for this miserable wretch that he abandons me!" The unworthiness of the unfortunate girl whom she regarded as her rival, incensed her to such a degree that she entirely forgot Chupin's presence.
Blanche saw her husband entering, finding Chupin, conversing with him, and discovering all! Her brain whirled; she yielded. She hastily thrust her purse in Chupin's hand and dragged him through an inner door and to the servants' staircase. "Take this," she said, in a hoarse whisper. "I will see you again. And not a word not a word to my husband, remember!" She had been wise to yield in time.
They had hoped to appease the duke's wrath a little, by informing him of Lacheneur's arrest; but he knew this already, for Chupin had ventured to awake him in the middle of the night to tell him the great news. The baron's escape afforded the duke an opportunity to exalt Chupin's merits. "The man who has discovered Lacheneur will know how to find this traitor d'Escorval," he remarked.
On hearing the shots fired inside Mother Chupin's drinking den, most of the vagrants concluded that there had been a collision between the police and some of their comrades, and they immediately began prowling about, eagerly listening and watching, and ready to take flight at the least sign of danger. At first they could discover no particular reasons for alarm.
With such precise directions the two detectives speedily reached Madame Polyte Chupin's abode. This proved to be a cold and gloomy attic of medium size, windowless, but provided with a small skylight. A straw pallet, a broken table, two chairs, and a few plain kitchen utensils constituted the sole appointments of this miserable garret.
And to prove this, I'm about to employ you in an affair which will pay you handsomely if you prosecute it successfully." Chupin's eyes brightened at first but grew dark a moment afterward, for delight had been quickly followed by a feeling of distrust.
"Chupin, my boy," said he, "I do not ask you to discover Monsieur d'Escorval in order to denounce him; far from it I only desire you to ascertain if anyone at Saint-Pavin, or at Saint-Jean-de-Coche, knows of his having crossed the frontier." On hearing the name Saint-Jean-de-Coche, Chupin's face blanched. "Do you wish me to be murdered?" he exclaimed, remembering Balstain and his vow.
By this one circumstance I am convinced that his adviser is a man of experience in such matters in other words, the business agent " "What business agent?" inquired the baron. "The person who called here the other day, M. Isidore Fortunat. Ah! why didn't I not bribe him to hold his peace?" The baron had entirely forgotten the existence of Victor Chupin's honorable employer.
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