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Here is the book, in its dreadful brevity; and it will explain the oath exacted and taken when the colonel and the lieutenant bade each other farewell. A young man of charming appearance, named Charles d'Estourny, came to Havre for the commonplace purpose of being near the sea, and there he saw Bettina Mignon.
"I know it," replied Barker, "but he may still have been there at the date of those bills " "I will not take the responsibility," said Cerizet. "I do not ask such a sacrifice of you," replied Barker; "you may be instructed to receive them. Endorse them, and I will undertake to recover the money." "I am surprised that d'Estourny should show so little confidence in me," said Cerizet.
In the days of his splendor Georges d'Estourny, a handsome youth, and above all, a jolly fellow, as generous as a brigand chief, had for a few months "protected" La Torpille. The false Abbe based his calculations on Esther's former intimacy with this famous scoundrel, an incident peculiar to women of her class.
Carlos went off to Cerizet intending to work him after his manner; for, as it happened, he was master of all this worthy's secrets a meet partner for d'Estourny. Cerizet the Brave lived in an entresol in the Rue du Gros-Chenet, and Carlos, who had himself mysteriously announced as coming from Georges d'Estourny, found the self-styled banker quite pale at the name.
"Put 'The bearer of this letter and these bills. You will be handsomely repaid for obliging me." "How?" said Cerizet. "In one word You mean to stay in France, do not you?" "Yes, monsieur." "Well, Georges d'Estourny will never re-enter the country." "Pray why?" "There are five persons at least to my knowledge who would murder him, and he knows it."
Bettina knew love through sorrow only, and she was dying of it. Among young girls every man, scoundrel though he be, is still a lover. Passion is the one thing absolutely real in the things of life, and it insists on its supremacy. Charles d'Estourny, gambler, criminal, and debauchee, remained in the memory of the sisters, the elegant Parisian of the fetes of Havre, the admired of the womenkind.
An endorsement in the name of Georges d'Estourny made Carlos Herrera master of the money he had created. This forgery was perfectly safe so long as Mademoiselle Esther, or some one for her, could, or was bound to pay. After making inquiries as to the house of Cerizet, Carlos perceived that he had to do with one of those humble men who are bent on making a fortune, but lawfully.
"Say no harm of him, poor fellow," protested Malaga. "D'Estourny was a good sort." "You can imagine the part that a ruined man was sure to play in 1830 when his name in politics was 'the courageous Cerizet. He was sent off into a very snug little sub-prefecture.
Georges d'Estourny, whose ambition grew bolder with success, had taken under his patronage a man who had come from the depths of the country to carry on a business in Paris, and whom the Liberal party were anxious to indemnify for certain sentences endured with much courage in the struggle of the press with Charles X.'s government, the persecution being relaxed, however, during the Martignac administration.
"I see your love is inextinguishable." "Yes, inextinguishable." "Can nothing change it?" "Nothing." "No circumstances, no treachery, no betrayal? You mean that you will love him in spite of everything, because of his personal attractions? Even though he proved a D'Estourny, would you love him still?" "Oh, my father! you do not know your daughter.
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