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It's ill-luck with a vengeance, the daily defeat of a poor devil of mediocre attainments, who imagined that his position as a deputy would facilitate money-making, and who is drowning himself in it all. And so how can Chaigneux have done otherwise than take money, he who is always hard up for a five-hundred-franc note! I admit that originally he wasn't a dishonest man.
I said to myself that the woman was laughing at me; I saw her alone with the count, saying over to him the same words that she had said to me in the night, and taking a five-hundred-franc note I sent it to her with these words: "You went away so suddenly that I forgot to pay you. Here is the price of your night."
"Did Oscar Husson fetch the paper this morning from Simon?" inquired Desroches. "Yes, monsieur." "Who gave him the money?" "Why, you did, Saturday," replied Godeschal. "Then it rains five-hundred-franc notes," cried Desroches. "Look here, Godeschal, you are a fine fellow, but that little Husson does not deserve such generosity.
And here's a note payable at the end of the month for four hundred and fifty; Cerizet will take it without much diminution, and there's your sum in hand. But no nonsense, Bixiou! Hein? to-night, at Carabine's, will you swear to me " "Haven't we re-friended?" said Bixiou, pocketing the five-hundred-franc bill and the note for four hundred and fifty.
Finding the five-hundred-franc note, he went into his private office furiously angry with his second clerk. About half-past seven he heard Godeschal dictating to the second head-clerk a copy of the document in question, and a few moments later the good fellow entered his master's office with an air of triumph in his heart.
Lecoq continued: "Since I have told you the woman's name, tell me now, how and why the count gave you a five-hundred-franc note." "It was just as I was going out. The count had no change, and did not want to send me to Orcival for it. I was to bring back the rest." "And why didn't you rejoin your companions at the wedding in the Batignolles?" No answer.
And even if you do, you fool, the police know everything. Your master sent you on an errand, didn't he, on Wednesday night; what did he give you? A one-thousand-franc note?" The prisoner looked at M. Lecoq in speechless amazement. "No," he stammered. "It was a five-hundred-franc note." The detective, like all great artists in a critical scene, was really moved.
It's ill-luck with a vengeance, the daily defeat of a poor devil of mediocre attainments, who imagined that his position as a deputy would facilitate money-making, and who is drowning himself in it all. And so how can Chaigneux have done otherwise than take money, he who is always hard up for a five-hundred-franc note! I admit that originally he wasn't a dishonest man.
He took Denise by the hand and drew her toward him to kiss her forehead; but the action had another motive. "My child," he whispered, "no one in Montegnac has five-hundred-franc notes; they are rare even at Limoges, where they are only taken at a discount.
"That I had guessed right. He changed a five-hundred-franc note there last Wednesday evening at a quarter before ten." "That is to say, he is saved?" "Well, you may say so. He will be, as soon as we have found Miss Jenny." The old justice of the peace could not avoid showing his uneasiness. "That will, perhaps, be long and difficult?" "Bast! Why so?
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