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The brother and sister, seeing no one come to the appointment at the Trois Mathildes, will go down to the beach. Don't you think that we shall learn something then of the accomplice whom I accuse them of having and of the connection between the two cases?" They reached the esplanade in front of the Hauville chalets, with the capstans by which the fishermen haul up their boats to the beach.
That was why your plan of a walk on the cliff suited me.... A fall from the top of a cliff seems quite natural ... Jacques therefore left me to go to his cabin, from which he was to join you later at the Trois Mathildes. On the way, below the terrace, he dropped the key of the cabin.
Nevertheless, twenty minutes passed and twenty-five; and no one stirred. "Perhaps Madame d'Ormeval has gone." Hortense suggested, anxiously. "She is no longer on her balcony." "If she is at the Trois Mathildes," said Renine, "we will go and catch her there."
But I have very sharp ears; and though I could not follow every sentence, I insist that we may be certain of two things. First, that man and woman, who are brother and sister, have an appointment at a quarter to twelve this morning, the 12th of October, at the spot known as the Trois Mathildes, with a third person, who is married and who wishes at all costs to recover his or her liberty.
Now, as I know a spot called the Trois Mathildes some way above Etretat and as this is not an everyday name, we came down yesterday to thwart the plan of these objectionable persons." "What plan?" asked Hortense. "For, after all, it's only your assumption that there's to be a victim and that the victim is to be flung off the top of the cliffs.
Hortense tried to laugh: "My heart is thumping," she said. "Nevertheless, I absolutely refuse to believe in anything so improbable. 'My husband and I have never had the slightest quarrel, she said to me. No, it's quite clear that those two get on admirably." "We shall see presently, at the Trois Mathildes, if one of them comes to meet the brother and sister."
Superior persons often smile at these Mathildes of the great. They have smiled no little at Mathilde Crescence Mirat; but he who was perhaps the greatest mocker that ever lived knew better than to laugh at Mathilde.
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