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But Maxence's patience was exhausted; and one morning he declared resolutely that he would no longer attend the law-school, that he had been mistaken in his vocation, and that there was no human power capable to make him return to M. Chapelain's. "And where will you go?" exclaimed his father. "Do you expect me eternally to supply your wants?"
The result was that the artist beamed with satisfaction as he went out of the house with the Rabouilleuse on his arm, all of which helped Maxence's plans immensely.
"At last," he said, "here is doubtless one end of the thread which will guide us to the truth through this labyrinth of iniquities." And, tapping gently on Maxence's shoulders, "We must talk," he said, "and at length. To-morrow, before you go to M. de Thaller's with his fifteen thousand francs, call and see me: I shall expect you.
At two o'clock the carriage is coming to take me to the bois, where I am to exhibit this costume, certainly the most ridiculous that Van Klopen has yet made me wear." A smile flitted upon Maxence's lips. "Who knows," said he, "if this is not the last time you will have to perform this odious task? Ah, my friend! what events have taken place since I last saw you!" "Fortunate ones?"
"I am watching for both of us; and if I see a chance, I come at once, and you act." But the outer door had hardly closed, when suddenly the countenance of Marius de Tregars changed. Shaking the hand which M. d'Escajoul had just touched, "Pouah!" he said with a look of thorough disgust, "pouah!" And noticing Maxence's look of utter surprise,
The long-headed old man instructed Madame Bridau carefully as to the line of conduct she ought to pursue, advising her to enter into Maxence's ideas and cajole Flore, so as to set up a sort of intimacy with her, and thus obtain a few moments' interview with Jean-Jacques alone. Madame Bridau was very warmly received by her brother, to whom Flore had taught his lesson.
"The very reverse of what, on the first impulse, I advised you to do. That's why I have come. I told you yesterday, 'Make a row, act, scream. It is impossible that your father be alone guilty; attack M. de Thaller. To-day, after mature deliberation, I say, 'Keep quiet, hide yourself, let the scandal drop." A bitter smile contracted Maxence's lips.
After a few moments, she raised her head, and, looking into Maxence's eyes with a gaze that made him quiver like the shock of an electric battery, "Doubtless," she said, in a tone of indifference somewhat forced, "you think you have in me a strange neighbor. Well, as between neighbors; it is well to know each other. Before you judge me, listen." The recommendation was useless.
He was well aware, when he left, that it would require a great deal of money to reach the frontier, escape pursuit, and hide himself abroad; and, if he refused the fifteen thousand francs, it must have been because he was well provided for already." Tears of shame and rage started from Maxence's eyes. "I am certain, sir," he exclaimed, "that my father went off without a sou."
If Favoral takes everything upon himself, what can they say to the other? If they have acted in collusion, the thing has been prepared for a long time; and, before commencing to fish, they must have troubled the water so well, that justice will be unable to see anything in it." "And you see no one who could help us?" "Favoral " To Maxence's great surprise, M. de Tregars shrugged his shoulders.
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