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He went into his daughter's rooms, and ended by fainting with grief when he found them empty, and heard Katt's story, which was that of an abduction as skilfully planned as if he had arranged it himself. "Well, well," thought he, "I must knock under. I will be revenged later; now I must go to Corentin. This is the first time we have met our foes.
Hulot resolved on the spot to thwart Corentin in every way that did not conflict essentially with the success of the government, and to give the Gars a fair chance of dying honorably, sword in hand, before he could fall a prey to the executioner, for whom this agent of the detective police acknowledged himself the purveyor.
"I can quite understand your being crazy about that splendid creature; it was a pleasure to me to look at her," replied Corentin.
But though she had at this moment a full and distinct view of the gulf into which she was plunging, she gathered strength from her love to shake off the icy chill of these presentiments. "Corentin," she said, with a sort of gayety, "I hope you are going to let me make my toilet?" "Marie," he said, "yes, permit me to call you so, you don't yet know me.
You have seen Corentin, that storehouse of treachery and wile, turn ghastly pale before me, and doing justice to my powers. That man has bereft me of everything; for it was he, and he alone, who overthrew the edifice of Lucien's fortunes, by what means and in whose interest I know not. Corentin and Camusot did it all " "No recriminations," said Monsieur de Granville; "give me the facts."
"Sometimes," replied Corentin; "in order to know all, we must use all means. But a great many lies are told about us on that subject. It is not true that the police, making a system of it, has, at certain periods, by a general enrolment of lacqueys and lady's-maids, established a vast network in private families.
But the absolute confidence placed in two men of the temper of Peyrade and Corentin conveyed to them the right of employing perfect strangers, under the risk, moreover, of being responsible to the Minister in all serious cases.
After this explosion, she muttered a few disconnected words, and her eyes closed; Corentin felt the relaxing of all the muscles by which she had held him as in a vice the moment before, and he took her in his arms and laid her on the sofa, insensible. "Do not stay here, monsieur," said Corentin. "Go into my study; I will come to you presently."
"Haven't you drunk enough?" called down Marthe's mother. "This is the fourteenth bottle since nine o'clock yesterday." "You have been here since nine o'clock this morning, haven't you?" said Corentin to Violette. "No, beg your pardon, since last night I haven't left the place, and I've gained nothing after all; the more he makes me drink the more he puts up the price."
At those words the two men looked at each other, and all was said. Each belonged to those profound anatomists of thought to whom a mere inflexion of the voice, a look, a word suffices to reveal a soul, just as the Indians track their enemies by signs invisible to European eyes. "I expected to draw something out of him, and I have only betrayed myself," thought Corentin.
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