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"Adieu, Guichet you have done me a great service, and you may be sure I will do nothing to betray you. Let us shake hands upon it." The color rushed into the model's swarthy cheeks. "Comment, M'sieur Müller!" he said, hesitatingly. "You offer to shake hands with me after what I have told you?" "Ten times more willing than before, mon ami," said Müller.
"Show this citizen the way to the guichet," he said curtly. "Good-night, citizen," he added finally, nodding to de Batz. Ten minutes later the Gascon once more found himself in the Rue du Temple between the great outer walls of the prison and the silent little church and convent of St. Elizabeth.
You do not fear the vengeance of Bras de Fer, or his friends?" "No, M'sieur -it's not that." "What is it, then?" "M'sieur...." "Pshaw, man! Speak up." "It is not that you would get me personally into trouble, M'sieur Müller," said Guichet, slowly. "I am no coward, I hope a coward would make a bad Garde Chiourme at Toulon, I fancy. And I'm not an escaped forçat.
The Postmaster opened his guichet window and threw a bit of string into the gutter; and old Miss Waghorn, just then appearing for her daily fifteen minutes' constitutional, saw the procession and asked him, 'Who in the world all those people were? She had completely forgotten them.
"Stop! It is Guichet himself. Let him go on, and we'll follow." So we dropped into the rear and followed him.
We were bound on an expedition of discovery, and the object of our journey was to find the habitat of Guichet the model. "I am determined to get to the bottom of this Lenoir business," said Müller, doggedly; "and if the police won't help me, I must help myself." "You have no case for the police," I replied. "So says the chef de bureau; but I am of the opposite opinion.
"How can I appear against him Guichet the model Guichet the Garde Chiourme Guichet the forçat? M'sieur Müller, I could never hold my head up again. It would be the ruin of me." "You shall not appear against him, and it shall not be the ruin of you. Guichet," said Müller. "That I promise you.
At last, having struck sharply to his left and ascended a short flight of stairs, he found himself in front of the guichet a narrow wooden box, wherein the clerk in charge of the prison registers sat nominally at the disposal of the citizens of this free republic. But to Armand's almost overwhelming chagrin he found the place entirely deserted.
"Well next week, for the whole week." Guichet shook his head. He was engaged to Monsieur Flandrin l
The guichet was closed down; there was not a soul in sight. The disappointment was doubly keen, coming as it did in the wake of hope that had refused to be gainsaid. Armand himself did not realise how sanguine he had been until he discovered that he must wait and wait again wait for hours, all day mayhap, before he could get definite news of Jeanne.
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