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We must go back for more men and bring along a Gatling. Slow down!" he called. Lafarge turned on his heel with an oath, and stood watching the Ninety-Nine. "She'll laugh at me till I die!" he said to himself presently, as the tug turned up stream and pointed for Quebec. "Well, I'm jiggered!" he added, as a cannon shot came ringing over the water after them.
The splendid impudence of the thing stunned Lafarge, but he said: "I suppose one or the other ought to surrender; and naturally," he added with slow point, "it should be the weaker." "Very well. Our captain is willing to consider conditions. You came down on us to take us a quiet craft sailing in free waters. You attack us without cause. We summon all hands, and you run.
"That sounds like a charade or a puzzle game. We are gentlemen on a serious errand, aren't we?" "Yes," answered Lafarge, "perfect gentlemen on a perfectly serious errand!" "Very well, m'sieu'. Have you come to surrender?"
Joan turned her head back with a laugh. "My poor m'sieu'! You have such bad luck. Contraband? Let me see? Liquors and wines and tobacco are contraband. Is it not so?" Lafarge nodded. "Is money gold contraband?" "Money? No; of course not, and you know it. Why won't you be sensible? You're getting me into a bad hole, and " "I want to see how you'll come out.
When she understood, she laughed till the tears came to her eyes, and presently, because Lafarge seemed hurt, gave him to understand that he was upon his honour if she told him what it was. He consenting, she, still laughing, asked him into the house, and then drew the keg from the pail, before his eyes, and, tapping it, gave him some liquor, which he accepted without churlishness.
"This, I presume, is at the instigation of that rascal Lafarge," he cried. "The people passing by here stop and pay a few pence, and see a better performance than can be seen at the Comédie Française, around the corner. So the audiences have been falling off. I hear there is scarcely any one in the house the nights Mademoiselle Lecouvreur does not play." Nothing availed.
"Fight!" answered Lafarge laconically. He wished to put himself on record, for he was the only one on board who saw through the ruse. "But I've counted at least twenty men, all armed, and we've only five."
"As you please, sir," said Lafarge bluntly, angry at being tricked, but inwardly glad to be free of the business, for he pictured to himself that girl at the tiller he had seen her as she went aft in a police court at Quebec. Yet his instinct for war and his sense of duty impelled him to say: "Still, sir, fight!" "No, no, Mr. Lafarge," excitedly rejoined his chief. "I cannot risk it.
"Yes, it must be M'sieu' Lafarge," she said, frowning. "He might have stayed out of this." "When he's got orders, he has to go," answered her father; "but he must look out, for a gun is a gun, and I don't pick and choose. Besides, I've no contraband this cruise, and I'll let no one stick me up." "There are six or seven of them," said Joan debatingly.
Orfila, afterwards to intervene in the much more universally notorious case of Mme Lafarge, stuck to his opinion of death by arsenic. If his evidence in the Lafarge case is read it will be seen that in the twenty years that had passed from the Boursier trial his notions regarding the proper routine of analysis for arsenic in a supposedly poisoned body had undergone quite a change.
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