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As he repeated this proverb, the workman uttered his usual sardonic laugh. "Lambernier," said the artist, in a serious tone, "I have heard of certain very strange speeches that you have made within the last few days. Do you know that there is a punishment by law for those who invent calumnies?" "Is it a calumny, when one can prove what he says?" replied the carpenter, with assurance.
"Yes, brigand! you may tell him so from me. But, by the way," continued the workman, surveying his companion from head to foot with a searching, defiant air, "do you happen to be the carpenter who is coming from Strasbourg? In that case, I have a few words to say to you. Lambernier does not allow any one to take the bread out of his mouth in that way; do you understand?"
"Monsieur le Baron, it was the coachman who attacked me first; I had to defend myself," stammered Lambernier. "All right, we will see about that later. March on!" "You will deliver me up to the police I am a ruined man!" "That will make one rascal the less," exclaimed Christian, repelling with disgust the workman, who had thrown himself on his knees before him.
He walked in this direction, with his gun over his shoulder, until he reached the foot of the steps which descended into the grotto. Christian crouched behind some bushes to wait for Lambernier, who must pass this way, and it was at this moment that Gerfaut, who was forty feet below him, saw him without suspecting the reason for his attitude.
As soon as Madame de Bergenheim had left the room, Christian arose and ran, rather than walked, to the space between the two windows, and sought the button in the woodwork of which Lambernier had told him. He soon found it, and upon his first pressure the spring worked and the panel flew open. The casket was upon the shelf; he took it and carefully examined the letters which it contained.
"I swear by the Holy Virgin and by all the saints " stammered Lambernier, who had suddenly become a very fervent Catholic. Christian pointed with his finger to the stone steps beneath them. "There is your road; pass over the rock, through the woods, and reach Alsace. If you conduct yourself well, I will assure your living. But remember; one single indiscreet word, and you are a dead man."
When he reached his room, Bergenheim opened the paper which Gerfaut had just given him and compared it with the letter he had received from Lambernier. The suspicions which a separate examination had aroused were confirmed upon comparing the two letters; no doubt was possible; the letter and the poetry were written by the same hand!
"Lambernier," said Rousselet, turning up his lips with a look of contempt, "I must admit that, for a man well brought up, you have made most disgusting remarks." "To say that I eat the horses' oats!" roared the coachman. "I ought to have said that you drank them," replied Lambernier, with his usual sneer.
"Leave me already, queen of my heart! No! do not expect to do that; I would sooner lose my life " "Will you stop! what if some one should hear you? they might be passing," said Reine, gazing anxiously about her. "If you knew how frightened I was in coming! I told mamma that I was going to the mill to see my uncle; but that horrid old Lambernier met me just as I entered the woods.
"I swear by the Holy Virgin and by all the saints " stammered Lambernier, who had suddenly become a very fervent Catholic. Christian pointed with his finger to the stone steps beneath them. "There is your road; pass over the rock, through the woods, and reach Alsace. If you conduct yourself well, I will assure your living. But remember; one single indiscreet word, and you are a dead man."
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