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"My God!" cried the Minister. "That is awful!" "Yes," said Lambelle quietly; "I put more of the substance on the flagging than I need to have done. A few drops would have answered quite as well, but I wanted to make sure. You were very sceptical, you know." The Minister looked at him. "I beg of you, M. Lambelle, never to divulge this secret to the Government of France, or to any other power.
"What you say," replied the inventor, "is undoubtedly true; yet I am determined that the name of Lambelle shall go down in history coupled with the most destructive agent the world has ever known, or will know. If the Government of France will build for me a large stone structure as secure as a fortress, I will keep my secret, but will fill that building with bottles like this, and then "
"See if you can find any traces of the dog," said the Minister. "I will clamber down into the quarry, and look there." "You will find nothing," said Lambelle confidently. There was but one path by which the bottom of the quarry could be reached.
The name of Lambelle will be known till the end of the world." "But, my God, man!" said the Minister, "the end of the world is here the moment your secret is in the possession of another. With you or me it would be safe: but who can tell the minds of those who may follow us? You are putting the power of the Almighty into the hands of a man."
Now then, tell me: will you, as Minister of France, secure for your country this greatest of all inventions?" "Yes," answered the Minister; "no other power must be allowed to obtain the secret. Have you ever written down the names of the ingredients?" "Never," answered Lambelle. "Is it not possible for any one to have suspected what your experiments were?
There was nothing in the character of Marie Antoinette to occasion such doubts. Indiscreet in many things, Her Majesty was most notoriously so in her attachments, as witness her intimacy with Madame de Polignac and the Princesse de Lambelle. And the public voice had magnified as it will those indiscretions until it had torn her character into shreds.
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