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He regarded him calmly there was a touch of irony in his gaze: at the same time, he did not clearly understand de Loubersac's last phrase. The excellent Monsieur de Naarboveck murmured in his ear: "De Loubersac, you know, has to do with the Second Bureau at the Ministry of War: the statistics department."...
This gave him the appearance, either of an artist of sorts or of a seller of chestnuts! Now behold the handsomest cavalier of France and Navarre!... And he struck up, in a clear voice: "Ah, how I would love this cuirassier If I were still a demoiselle." Henri de Loubersac, who had just collided with the captain, burst into laughter, and warmly shook hands with him.
They are keeping quiet at present. Plague take the lot of them!... It makes me furious when I think what happened the other day creating a scandal about things the public ought to be kept in ignorance of ought never to hear of never!... Those confounded meddlers complicate our task abominably." Colonel Hofferman paused: de Loubersac kept a discreet silence.
The waters in the docks reflected the light from the quay lamps on their shining, heaving, surface. Now, for some time, Henri de Loubersac had been longing to ask Juve a question, longing yet fearing to voice it a question relating to his personal affairs. Had not Juve, as Vagualame, clearly insinuated that Wilhelmine de Naarboveck must have been the mistress of Captain Brocq?
The talk began with an abrupt question from de Loubersac: "And the V. affair?" "The V. affair?... Peuh!" "What the deuce does he refer to?" Juve was asking himself. Unsuspecting, de Loubersac came to his aid. "Our corporal must have returned to Verdun to-day?" "Ah!" thought Juve, "our corporal is Vinson!"
"If I were not Vagualame, I should know how to answer him," he muttered. "As it is!"... Juve rose, stumbling and staggering like a badly shaken old man, and leaned against the hand railing of the steps. Meanwhile de Loubersac was walking up and down, talking aloud, in a state of extreme agitation.
Presently Wilhelmine asked: "But what brought you in this direction?" "Oh, I was going ... to pay a visit ... it is a piece of very good luck my coming across you like this." De Loubersac seemed to have something on his mind. Despite his protestations he did not look as if he were enjoying this chance meeting. "Where were you bound for, Wilhelmine?" he asked.
Juve had felt anxious as he accosted de Loubersac: no doubt the lieutenant and his secret agent had some set form of greeting, some agreed on method of imparting information. By incurring the fine, Juve realised that he had made a wrong start perhaps omitted a password. Still, he had obtained the essential thing a private talk with this particular official of the Second Bureau.
Vagualame raised his hand as if taking heaven to witness that his statement was final. "Not a sou more! Not a sou less! Fifty thousand is the price: fifty thousand!" Henri de Loubersac hesitated a second, then concluded the interview. "Agreed to!... Be quick about it!... Adieu!" "Nichoune!... Nichoune!... Nichoune!" "Be off with you, Léonce! To the door!" It was a regular hubbub! An uproar!
The two men were walking down the little path which encircles the principal lawn of the Elysée Gardens, now almost deserted. The colonel turned to his companion. "What was that you were saying just now?... You had something fresh to tell me, and you had not.... That is the Norman way of putting it!... Not like you, de Loubersac!"
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