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A vague feeling of alarm was beating at his heart, and he confusedly bethought him, that it might be better not to repeat the falsehood he had told M. Dufour. Before, however, he could decide what to say, Dufour answered for him: 'He says from Monsieur Mangier, just by. 'Strange! said Mademoiselle Blaise.
'I received it from Monsieur Mangier in advance, said Hector in hasty reply to that look, blurting out in some degree inadvertently the assertion which he had been thinking would be the most feasible solution of his sudden riches, since he had been so peremptorily forbidden to mention M. Derville's name.
'It is very generous of Monsieur Mangier, said Dufour; 'and he is not famous for that virtue either. But let us go to Blaise's bank: I have not sufficient change in the house, and I daresay we shall get silver for it there.
'I was sure he would say so, gasped Bertrand. 'He is a demon, and I am lost. A bright, almost disdainful expression shone in Marie's fine eyes. Bertrand found Messieurs Derville, Blaise, and Mangier in a private room; and he remarked, with a nervous shudder, that two gendarmes were stationed in the passage.
M. Mangier said: 'The assertion of Bertrand, that I advanced him this note, or any other, is entirely false. 'What have you to say in reply to these grave suspicions? said M. Blaise. 'Your father was an honest man; and you, I hear, have hitherto borne an irreproachable character, he added, on finding that the accused did not speak.
About six weeks after his encounter with M. Derville, he obtained a considerable contract for the carpentry work of a large house belonging to a M. Mangier a fantastic, Gothic-looking place, as persons acquainted with Rouen will remember, next door but one to Blaise's banking-house.
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