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Take Toto Chupin with you; he is outside with his chestnuts, and is as fly as they make them. If you catch her up, don't say a word, but follow her up, and see where she goes. I want to know her whole daily life. Remember that no item, however unimportant it may seem, is not of consequence." Beaumarchef disappeared in an instant, and Mascarin continued to grumble. "What a fool!" he murmured.
Warned by a brief note from Florestan, Mascarin had driven swiftly to Father Canon's public-house, where he thought he was certain to find the domestic, but the man was not there, and Mascarin, unable to endure further suspense, sent for him to the Hotel de Mussidan.
When Mascarin adopted this tone, resistance was out of the question; and as he invariably made all yield to him, it was best to obey with a good grace, and Catenac relapsed into silence, completely subjugated and very much puzzled. "Sit down at my desk," continued Mascarin, "and take careful notes of what I now say. Success is, as I have told you, inevitable, but I must be ably backed.
Her own miseries occupied Sabine, and her father and mother were suffering from their interviews with Mascarin and Dr. Hortebise. What did the liveried servants, who waited at table with such an affectation of interest, care for the sorrows of their master or mistress? They were well lodged and well fed, and nothing save their wages did they care for.
The tall chap was Mascarin, the fat un Doctor Hortebise, and t'other stop, let me think it out in my knowledge box; ah! I have it, he was Verminet." Andre was so delighted that, drawing from his pocket a five-franc piece, he tossed it to the boy. "Thanks, my noble lord," said Chupin, and was about to add something more in a similar vein, when he glanced down the street.
"M. Mascarin is within," answered the badgered clerk, endeavoring to put on an air of dignity; "and M. Tantaine is with him." A brilliant idea flashed across the doctor's mind, but it was with an air of gravity that he said, "I shall be charmed to meet that most worthy old gentleman."
"No, no," he continued; "I am getting too full of suspicions;" and with these words he endeavored to put aside the vague terrors which were creeping into his soul. Suddenly Beaumarchef, evidently much excited, appeared upon the threshold. "What, you here again!" cried Mascarin, angrily; "am I to have no peace to-day?" "Sir, the young man is here." "What young man? Paul Violaine?" "Yes, sir."
This removal was effected by means of a door marked by a panel between Mascarin's office and the banker's private room; and when the last scrap of paper had been removed, Mascarin pointed out a heap of bricks and a supply of mortar to his faithful adherent. "Wall up this door," said he.
Do you understand me fully?" Here the speaker was interrupted by the entrance of Beaumarchef, who had signified his desire to come in by three distinct raps upon the door. He was now gorgeous to look upon, for having taken advantage of a spare half hour, he had donned his best clothes. "What is it?" demanded Mascarin. "Here are two letters, sir." "Thank you; hand them to me, and leave us."
Rose changed the five hundred franc note that Tantaine had lent me at the shop of a grocer, named Melusin, and this suspicious fool was the first to raise a cry against us, and dared to assert that a detective had been ordered to watch us." Mascarin knew all this story better than Paul, but here he interrupted his young friend.
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