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It will be for him, afterward, to tell Mme. Fauville that she is a widow and that she has no son. Go! Hurry!" "One moment, Chief; we are forgetting something that will help us enormously." "What's that?" "The little drab-cloth diary in the safe, in which M. Fauville describes the plot against him." "Why, of course!" said Perenna.
Mazeroux plunged both hands into the crowd of papers that encumbered the iron shelf. "Well, Mazeroux, hand it over." "What?" "The diary." "I can't Chief." "What's that?" "It's gone." Don Luis stifled an oath. The drab-cloth diary, which the engineer had placed in the safe before their eyes, had disappeared. Mazeroux shook his head. "Dash it all! So they knew about that diary!"
In 1824 Toffey imported, for Costuming, shawls, crepe at $1 per yard, silk, skein-silk, twist, ribbon, velvet at 90c. per yard, drab-cloth, flannel, braid, handkerchiefs, buttons and button-moulds, gloves, suspenders, calico, vest patterns, pins, chrome-yellow, "bearskin" at 82c. per yard, dress handkerchiefs, beads, buckles, silk flags and morocco skins.
Then his servant brought him something to eat, including a dish of apples. Then followed a fit of rage, the agony of the man who is about to die and who fears death and a whole scene of deceit, in which he showed us his safe and the drab-cloth diary which was supposed to contain the story of the plot. ... That ended matters.
A movement entirely independent of the chandelier will explode it at the hour aforesaid. "I have just laid beside it the drab-cloth manuscript book in which I pretended that I wrote my diary, the phials containing the poison, the needles which I used, an ebony walking-stick, two letters from Inspector Vérot, in short, anything that might save the culprits. Then how can any one know?
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