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Updated: October 16, 2025
We must not omit to mention what took place in the garden the previous evening. When the banker, overcome by the heat of the rooms, took refuge in the fresh air, he had been followed by Fagiano, who said to him, when out of hearing of every one: "Monsieur de Laisangy, I know your past." Laisangy started, and even uttered an exclamation of surprise. The other continued a threat in every word.
Carmen hesitated, but Omar at once threw his bournous aside and offered the young lady his arm. Laisangy whispered in Carmen's ear: "Do not delay too long. I have received the signal and must do what was agreed upon between us." Carmen paid little heed to these words, but moved through the crowd on Omar's arm, slowly and thoughtfully.
I do not think I could analyze my ambitions so artistically." Esperance now began to speak more rapidly and with emotion. "To love is to give up one's entire being, to live in another. You say that you love, that your lips have touched those of whom you have chosen, and that your heart sank at that same moment. No, you do not love Carmen de Laisangy!"
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.
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.
He asked for money much money. Laisangy knew that in his long career he had left many creditors in the lurch, and finally he said: "Who are you? Why should I give you money? What is your name?" To these questions the mysterious stranger replied: "Take care you will know my name only too soon!" Since then Laisangy had been very uneasy. Possibly his conscience was not quite clear.
Laisangy, who was becoming greatly bored by the part he was playing, supposed that Carmen would dismiss the servants and remain with him herself; but she had quite other plans. She bade the men undress their master and put him in his bed. Laisangy was ready to swear at her, but, of course, he was too ill to dispute.
"You met many enemies last evening, it seems; for some one said in the garden, 'Take care that you do not learn my name too soon, Monsieur de Laisangy. These may not be the precise words, but they are nearly so." "Ah! you are a spy, then! Look out!"
The two friends had passed the Arc de Triomphe by this time, and entered the dark shadows of the Bois. "Monsieur de Laisangy seems to have an excellent reputation. Bankers are measured by a standard of their own, and public opinion is never very strict in regard to them. Monsieur de Laisangy is rich, but no one says he has made his money dishonestly.
"You are a fool, Coucon," he said to himself, "if you don't manage to deliver your own note at the same time!" Our readers must not suppose that Coucon was so simple as to think of penetrating the Laisangy salons, even with the note he had obtained in so abominable a manner from his friend. The plan he had devised was more audacious and more sure.
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