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"I've six hundred thousand francs of my own, this day," cried Dumay, "and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle." The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. "What! you have six hundred thousand francs!" exclaimed Latournelle, pricking up his ears as Dumay let fall the words; "and you allow these ladies to live as they do!
There is a sensation of panic in the race. Miss Bingham came to town with a very swollen "comedy-drama," called "Mademoiselle Marni," from the pen of a "monsoor," programmed as Henri Dumay said to be an American "monsoor" at that. This actress affects French plays for reasons that have never been explained, and that certainly do not appear.
"Go back to Havre; you will get there in time for the last piece at the theatre. I'll pay for your tickets." When the four friends were alone with Madame Mignon, Madame Latournelle, after looking at Dumay, who being a Breton understood the mother's obstinacy, and at her husband who was fingering the cards, felt herself authorized to speak up.
The billiard-room of the villa Vilquin, a species of gallery, formerly communicated through an immense aviary with this hot-house. But after the building of the wall which deprived him of a view into the orchards, Dumay bricked up the door of communication. "Wall for wall!" he said.
I return to the villa, having bought it back under a deed of redemption within six months, which I have to-day signed with Monsieur Vilquin." "I hope," said Dumay, "that Vilquin will not be able to return to you the sum you have just lent him, and that the villa will remain yours." "It is an abode in keeping with your fortune," said Canalis.
"'The Bettina Mignon, Captain Mignon, arrived October 6'; it is now the 17th, and the colonel is sure to be in Paris." Dumay requested Gobenheim to do without him in future, and then went back to the Chalet, which he reached just as Modeste was sealing her two letters, to her father and Canalis. Except for the address the letters were precisely alike both in weight and appearance.
Modeste gave him the letter. Dumay looked mechanically at the address. "'Monsieur le Baron de Canalis, rue de Paradis-Poissoniere, No. 29'!" he cried out; "what does that mean?" "Ah, my daughter! that is the man you love," exclaimed Madame Mignon; "the stanzas you set to music were his " "And that's his portrait that you have in a frame upstairs," added Dumay.
Well, papa is not the kind of man to stay away four years and only double his capital. It seems he is coming back on a ship of his own, and Dumay's share amounts to almost six hundred thousand francs." "There is no need to question Dumay," said Butscha. "Your father lost, as you know, about four millions when he went away, and he has doubtless recovered them.
Dumay sent agents to represent his master in New York, Paris, and London, and followed up the assignments of the three banking-houses whose failure had caused the ruin of the Havre house, thus realizing five hundred thousand francs between 1826 and 1828, an eighth of Charles's whole fortune; then, according to the latter's directions given on the night of his departure, he sent that sum to New York through the house of Mongenod to the credit of Monsieur Charles Mignon.
"I will allow you to do anything that shall enlighten us, provided it does no injury to my last child." "What are you going to do, Jean?" asked Madame Dumay; "how can you discover a young girl's secret if she means to hide it?" "Obey me, all!" cried the lieutenant, "I shall need every one of you."
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