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The present statement was also addressed to M. Rodin, and Van Dael thus went on with it: "Fearing the return of General Simon, of which I had been informed by intercepting his letters I have already told you, that I had succeeded in being employed by him as his agent here; having then read his letters, and sent them on as if untouched to Djalma, I felt myself obliged, from the pressure of the circumstances, to have recourse to extreme measures taking care always to preserve appearances, and rendering at the same time a signal service to humanity, which last reason chiefly decided me.
Some hours after these events, M. Joshua van Dael thus finished his long despatch, addressed to M. Rodin, of Paris: "Circumstances were such, that I could not act otherwise; and, taking all into consideration, it is a very small evil for a great good.
"I will again humbly observe to you, M. Faringhea, that I have no time to give you a course of criminal jurisprudence; but, believe me, you had better resist the temptation to strangle or poison any one. One word more: will you deliver up to me the letters of M. Van Dael, or not?"
But in a few minutes his master said to him with a singular expression: "Does not Van Dael mention General Simon in connection with Djalma's imprisonment and his father's death?" "He does not allude to him," said the secretary, continuing his task. Rodin's master was silent, and paced the room. In a few moments Rodin said to him: "I have done it." "Go on, then."
Prevent, at any price, the daughters of General Simon from quitting Leipsic; hasten the arrival of Gabriel in Paris; and should Prince Djalma come to Batavia, tell M. Joshua Van Dael, that we count on his zeal and obedience to keep him there."
"M. Rodin!" exclaimed the missionary, falling back in surprise. "M. Rodin," cried the other shipwrecked person; and from that moment, he kept his eye fixed on the correspondent of M. Van Dael. "You here, sir?" said Gabriel, approaching Rodin with an air of deference, not unmixed with fear. "What did that man say to you?" repeated Rodin, in an excited tone.
Having escaped the pursuit of the soldiers in the ruins of Tchandi, he had killed Mahal the Smuggler, and robbed him of the despatches written by M. Joshua Van Dael to Rodin, as also of the letter by which the smuggler was to have been received as passenger on board the "Ruyter."
"This letter, being to my address, and having been entrusted to you by M. Van Dael, you ought " "This letter was not entrusted to me by M. Van Dael," said Faringhea, interrupting Rodin. "How, then, is it in your possession?" "A Javanese smuggler betrayed me. Van Dael had secured a passage to Alexandria for this man, and had given him this letter to carry with him for the European mail.
"If Prince Djalma were to leave India now, he could scarcely reach Paris by the month of February." "Van Dael," continued Rodin, "regrets that he has not been able to prove his zeal in this case. Supposing Prince Djalma set at liberty, or having effected his escape, it is certain he would come to Batavia to claim his inheritance from his mother, since he has nothing else left him in the world.
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