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She resolved to defend Goutran and all those he loved. Woe to whomsoever should attack them. That same morning, Laisangy asked to be received by her. She was quite ready for another quarrel, but Laisangy was amiable and smiling, for he had at that moment heard from Benedetto that his vengeance was near being accomplished.
Goutran, in the meantime, had lighted the room, then coming to the side of the bed, he leaned over the girl. "Esperance!" he said, "rouse yourself, if you wish to save her!" With a violent effort Esperance resumed his self-control. "Ah! you are right, my friend. But if Jane is dead, I shall die also, for I love her I love her!"
I am strong, and shall be there almost as soon as yourself." In a very few minutes they reached the hôtel, which Goutran opened with a key given him by Esperance. They entered the corridor that led to the rooms formerly occupied by Haydée. Esperance, with infinite precautions, laid Jane on the bed.
Goutran laughed as he led the way toward the room where Jane Zeld had been singing. "Can the snare," continued Goutran, "be found in the delicious tones of that voice, which has moved you so deeply? Those eyes are wonderfully bright." Esperance found himself near the piano. Jane had risen, and was receiving the many compliments of her admirers.
She saw on the list the name of Goutran, which she had written with a breaking heart. After all, had she the right to desert her post? "Very well," she said, "I will be present." Laisangy was astonished at his prompt success. "Yes," she repeated, "on condition that you do not once call me your daughter." "What shall I call you?" stammered Laisangy.
But now that calm was in a measure restored, Goutran thought of Carmen with quickened pulse. He no longer hesitated. He resolved to write to a millionaire uncle of his who spent his last days hunting wolves in the Ardennes, and beg him to come up and lay his proposal before the banker. He told Esperance what he meant to do, and the Vicomte encouraged the plan.
"We must look at this," he said. The letter was only a few lines of thanks written to the young girl by Goutran, when she consented to sing at his soirée. The note began with the words "Miss Jane!" "Miss Jane!" cried Fanfar, a sudden recollection flashing over him. To this cry there was a response. The door opened, and Sanselme tottered in. "Jane! Jane! Did you say Jane?"
I need your affection, and I need your assistance, but I am about to put your interest in me to a very severe test." "You have but to express your wishes," said Goutran. Carmen waited. Evidently she had not strength to go on with her explanation. "Listen to me," she resumed. "I owe you a declaration which will remove every possibility of a misunderstanding between us.
In fact, a secret mechanism connected the first stair with the iron door. Those who did not know it became prisoners at once, while others simply stepped over this stair, and so left the iron panel open. But neither Coucon nor the others knew this. Down went Coucon's foot in the wrong place, and the panel swung to. At the same moment Fanfar, Goutran and Bobichel appeared.
"It is nothing of the kind," answered Coucon, impatiently. "Where is Monsieur Goutran?" "I have not seen the gentlemen since you went out." "Then they must be in Miss Jane's room still?" "I suppose so." "We will go there at once, then." But the Zouave was interrupted by a strange sound like that made by a heavy hammer at some distance. Madame turned pale.
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