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"My friend," resumed Marambot, "not a year, not a single year, you understand, passes without a fresh history of Gisors being published here; we now have twenty-three." "And the glories of Gisors?" I asked. "Oh, I will not mention them all, only the principal ones.
He fought wildly, waving his arms around in the darkness, kicking and crying: "Denis! Denis! Are you mad? Listen, Denis!" But the latter, gasping for breath, kept up his furious attack always striking, always repulsed, sometimes with a kick, sometimes with a punch, and rushing forward again furiously. M. Marambot was wounded twice more, once in the leg and once in the stomach.
The idea of seeing this terrible spectacle again so upset him that he kept his eyes closed with all his strength, as though they might open in spite of himself. What had become of Denis? He had probably escaped. But what could he, Marambot, do now? Get up? Call for help? But if he should make the slightest motions, his wounds would undoubtedly open up again and he would die from loss of blood.
Denis was struggling with two gendarmes. An officer was taking notes on his pad. As soon as he saw his master, the servant began to sob, exclaiming: "You told on me, monsieur, that's not right, after what you had promised me. You have broken your word of honor, Monsieur Marambot; that is not right, that's not right!"
M. Marambot, bewildered and distressed at being suspected, lifted his hand: "I swear to you before the Lord, my boy that I did not tell on you. I haven't the slightest idea how the police could have found out about your attack on me." The officer started: "You say that he attacked you, M. Marambot?"
I perceived that I was eating something very delicious, hard-boiled eggs wrapped in a covering of meat jelly flavored with herbs and put on ice for a few moments. I said as I smacked my lips to compliment Marambot: "That is good." He smiled. "Two things are necessary, good jelly, which is hard to get, and good eggs.
But, suddenly, a thought flashed across his mind, and he began to shriek: "Stop, stop, Denis, I have not yet received my money!" The man immediately ceased, and his master could hear his labored breathing in the darkness. M. Marambot then went on: "I have received nothing. M. Malois takes back what he said, the law-suit will take place; that is why you carried the letters to the mail.
The bewildered druggist answered: "Yes but I did not tell on him I haven't said a word I swear it he has served me excellently from that time on " The officer pronounced severely: "I will take down your testimony. The law will take notice of this new action, of which it was ignorant, Monsieur Marambot.
Finally M. Marambot said calmly: "You have been guilty of a great crime." Denis answered: "I am trying to make up for it, monsieur. If you will not tell on me, I will serve you as faithfully as in the past." This was no time to anger his servant. M. Marambot murmured as he closed his eyes: "I swear not to tell on you." Denis saved his master.
A little yellow dog, a half-starved cur, followed him, barking; stopping when he stopped, and starting off when he started. "Hallo," said Marambot, "there is Madame Husson's 'Rosier'. "Madame Husson's 'Rosier'," I exclaimed in astonishment. "What do you mean?" The doctor began to laugh. "Oh, that is what we call drunkards round here.
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