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As Goudar would not have undertaken the delicate task of pointing them out, I resolved on accompanying him myself. I made an appointment with him at an hour when I knew they would be all in the parlour. He was to enter directly the door was opened, and I would come in at the same instant and point out the women he had to arrest.
"If your ambition is really what you say, my dear, Goudar," said M. Folgat, interrupting him, "you may be able to leave your profession very soon if you succeed in saving M. de Boiscoran." "He would give me his house in Vine Street?" "With all his heart!" The detective looked up, and repeated slowly, "The house in Vine Street, the paradise of this world.
"Well, well, you can take me to him; it will be easier to avoid any entanglement than if he came to see me." Goudar went to Lavalette to prepare the way, and in the afternoon he took me to see him. I was well enough pleased to see the man, whose rascality had destroyed the infamous work of many years.
Thereupon Goudar had the impudence to ask me to deal for a fourth share. "I will not deal under a half share," I replied, "though I have no confidence in my luck." Goudar spoke to Medini, who got up, took away his share, and left me the place. I had only two hundred ounces in my purse.
After dinner I presented the two Saxons to the duchess; they gave her news of the dowager electress, of whom she was very fond. We then went to the play together. As chance would have it, Madame Goudar occupied the box next to ours, and Hamilton amused the duchess by telling the story of the handsome Irishwoman, but her grace did not seem desirous of making Sara's acquaintance.
Fruit, also yields a good profit." The advocate knew now that he had caught his man. "Remember, too, my dear Goudar, that, if you succeed, these fifteen thousand francs would only be a part payment. They might, perhaps, double the sum. M. de Boiscoran is the most liberal of men, and he would take pleasure in royally rewarding the man who should have saved him."
When I told Goudar the whole story, I no doubt mentioned the little gate in connection with Mechinet." Whilst they were chatting thus, they had reached the upper end of National Street. Here they stopped; and M. Magloire said, "One word before we part. Are you quite resolved to see the Countess Claudieuse?" "I have promised." "What do you propose telling her?" "I do not know.
The rascally Goudar made them drunk, and in this state they told some terrible truths about their pretended father. He did not live with them, but paid them nocturnal visits in which he robbed them of all the money they had earned. He was their pander, and made them rob their visitors instructing them to pass it off as a joke if the theft was discovered.
There are not many neighbors in Vine Street. A teacher and a nurseryman, a locksmith and a liveryman, five or six owners of houses, and the inevitable keeper of a wine-shop and restaurant, these were the whole population. "We shall soon make the rounds," said Goudar, after having ordered the coachman to wait for them at the end of the street.
I began with the usual compliments, to which the girls replied politely, but with an air of great sadness. Goudar spoke to the man, and then came to me shrugging his shoulders, and saying, "We have come at a sad time. That man is a bailiff who has come to take the mother to prison if she can't pay her landlord the twenty guineas' rent she owes him, and they haven't got a farthing.
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