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Auban's assertion that he had been drawn from a squalid Sicilian home. Such faces are not bred in squalor. In utter ignorance of the cabal against him, he greeted St. Auban who was well known to him with a graceful bow, and also Vilmorin, who stood in the doorway with Malpertuis, and who at the sight of Mancini grew visibly ill at ease.
As for your other friend, unless his height misleads me, he is but a boy. Therefore, Monsieur, you see that the advantage is with us. We are two men opposed to a man, a woman, and a child, so that " "In Heaven's name, sir," cried St. Auban, again interposing himself betwixt me and the bellicose Malpertuis, "will you cease this foolishness? A word with you in private, M. de Luynes."
"The Chevalier de Canaples must be warned," I exclaimed. "'T is an ugly business," muttered Montresor. "I'll wager a hundred that Mazarin will hang the Chevalier if he catches him just now." "He would not dare!" cried Malpertuis. "Not dare?" echoed the lieutenant.
Auban has carried Canaples's letter to the Cardinal already. I heard from his lips to-day for I was present at the interview how the document had been wrested from Malpertuis. For your sake, so that you might learn all he knew, I sought the fellow out, and having found him in the Rue des Tournelles, I took you thither." In a very fever of excitement I listened.
"Did she ever mention my name?" Malpertuis looked up quickly at the question, and a wan smile flickered round his lips. "Once she spoke of you to me pityingly, as one might speak of a dead man whose life had not been good." "Yes, yes," I broke in. "It matters little. Your story, M. Malpertuis."
By the melancholy light of a single taper burning upon the table I beheld a fair-sized room containing a curtained bed. My companion took up the candle, and stepping to the bedside, he drew apart the curtains. Lying there I beheld a man whose countenance, despite its pallor and the bloody bandages about his brow, I recognised for that of the little spitfire Malpertuis.
But of a sudden a door opened somewhere, and a step rang out, accompanied by the jangle of spurs, and with it came a sharp, unpleasant voice calling for its owner's horse. There was a familiar sound in those shrill accents that caused me to thrust my head through the casement. But I was quick to withdraw it, as I recognised in the gaily dressed little fellow below my old friend Malpertuis.
Right is with you, M. de Luynes, and if I break faith with the might I serve, it is because that might is an unjust one; I do but betray the false to the true, and there can be little shame in such an act. Moreover, I have a reason but let that be." He was silent for a moment, then he resumed: "Most of that which you have learnt from Malpertuis to-night, I myself could have told you. Yes; St.
Two minutes later I was in the saddle riding with Michelot in the wake of the carriage. As I have already sought to indicate in these pages, Michelot was as much my friend as my servant. It was therefore no more than natural that I should communicate to him my fears touching what might come of the machinations of St. Auban, Vilmorin, and even, perchance, of that little firebrand, Malpertuis.
From behind my curtains I watched Malpertuis ride out of the yard, saying, in answer to a parting question of the landlord, who had come upon the scene, that he would breakfast at Beaugency. Then, as he rode down the street, he of a sudden raised his discordant voice and sang to the accompaniment of his horse's hoofs.
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