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Hardquanonne died of the tortures he had suffered, but just before his death he said, "I swore to keep the secret, and I have kept it as long as I could. We did it between us the king and I. Silence is no longer any good. This is the man." What was the reason for the hatred of James II. to the child? This.
The author of a maxim delights in opportunities to which it may be applied. Here was a case of the restoration of a peer. Search was made. Gwynplaine, by the inscription over his door, was soon found. Neither was Hardquanonne dead. A prison rots a man, but preserves him if to keep is to preserve. People placed in Bastiles were rarely removed.
"At the time that I am writing this, Hardquanonne, who has perfect knowledge of all the facts, and participated as principal therein, is detained in the prisons of his highness the Prince of Orange, commonly called King William III. Hardquanonne was apprehended and seized as being one of the band of Comprachicos or Cheylas. He is imprisoned in the dungeon of Chatham.
But how degrading to be thus baffled! To keep hate thenceforth in a case, like a dagger in a museum! How bitter the humiliation! All at once to a certain goal Chance, immense and universal, loves to bring such coincidences about the flask of Hardquanonne came, driven from wave to wave, into Barkilphedro's hands.
The reed, notwithstanding some breakages, traced distinctly in the wicker-work these twelve letters Hardquanonne. Then the sheriff, resuming that monotonous tone of voice which resembles nothing else, and which may be termed a judicial accent, turned towards the sufferer.
"The operation is so unique and singular that though after long years this child should have come to be an old man instead of a child, and his black locks should have turned white, he would be immediately recognized by Hardquanonne.
There is little more change in the dungeon than in the tomb. Hardquanonne was still in prison at Chatham. They had only to put their hands on him. He was transferred from Chatham to London. In the meantime information was sought in Switzerland. The facts were found to be correct.
"Hardquanonne, by the terms of the law, after confrontation followed by identification, after the third reading of the declarations of your accomplices, since confirmed by your recognition and confession, and after your renewed avowal, you are about to be relieved from these irons, and placed at the good pleasure of her Majesty to be hung as plagiary." "Plagiary," said the serjeant of the coif.
"I had not observed that gourd before; did it belong to Hardquanonne?" "Yes," the cook answered; "to our poor comrade, Hardquanonne." The doctor went on, "To Hardquanonne, the Fleming of Flanders?" "Yes." "Who is in prison?" "Yes." "In the dungeon at Chatham?" "It is his gourd," replied the cook; "and he was my friend. I keep it in remembrance of him. When shall we see him again?
The Lord Chancellor added in a postscript that if Hardquanonne refused to answer he should be subjected to the peine forte et dure, until the period called the frodmortell, according to the statute of King Athelstane, which orders the confrontation to take place on the fourth day.
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