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Updated: April 30, 2025
It was more than eight o'clock when Madame Bernier reached her own house. 'Has M. de Meyrau been here? she asked of Josephine. 'Yes, ma'am; and on learning that Madame was out, he left a note, chez monsieur. Hortense found a sealed letter on the table in her husband's old study. It ran as follows: 'I was desolated at finding you out. I had a word to tell you.
'He will not be with me ten minutes without guessing it. 'Oh, as for that, said her companion, dryly, 'that's your own affair. 'Monsieur de Meyrau! cried the lady. 'It seems to me, continued the other, 'that in making such a guarantee, I have done my part of the business. 'Your part of the business! sobbed Hortense.
'Is M. Bernier here? he asked of one of the officers, the first man he met. 'I fancy he's gone ashore, sir. There was a boatman inquiring for him a few minutes ago, and I think he carried him off. M. de Meyrau reflected a moment. Then he crossed over to the other side of the vessel, looking landward.
As the sailor he had just addressed was handing down his bag, a face with a red cap looked over the bulwarks. 'Hullo, my man! cried De Meyrau, 'is this your boat? 'Yes, sir, at your service, answered the red cap, coming to the top of the ladder, and looking hard at the gentleman's stick and portmanteau. 'Can you take me to town, to Madame Bernier's, at the end of the new quay?
M. de Meyrau made no reply, but with a great cut of the whip sent the horse bounding along the road. Nothing more was said. Hortense lay back in the carriage with her face buried in her handkerchief, moaning. Her companion sat upright, with contracted brows and firmly set teeth, looking straight before him, and by an occasional heavy lash keeping the horse at a furious pace.
Leaning over the bulwarks he saw an empty boat moored to the ladder which ran up the vessel's side. 'That's a town boat, isn't it? he said to one of the hands standing by. 'Yes, sir. 'Where's the master? 'I suppose he'll be here in a moment. I saw him speaking to one of the officers just now. De Meyrau descended the ladder, and seated himself at the stern of the boat.
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