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Updated: May 29, 2025
Malin had told Corentin and Peyrade of the escape he had from lying in wait for him. The two agents related the incident of the gun they had seen the bailiff load, and Grevin had sent Violette to obtain information as to what was going on at Michu's house. Corentin advised the notary to take Malin to his own house in the little town of Arcis, and let him sleep there as a measure of precaution.
Nevertheless, she had no cause for complaint. Her husband, made peer of France with the title of Marquis de Cinq-Cygne, became lieutenant-general in 1816, and was rewarded with the blue ribbon for the eminent services which he then performed. Michu's son, of whom Laurence took care as though he were her own child, was admitted to the bar in 1817.
Violette was too timid to have a man of Michu's strength on his crupper, and he spurred his beast. Judas slung his gun over his shoulder and walked rapidly up the avenue. "Who can it be that Michu is angry with?" said Marthe to her mother. "Ever since he heard of Monsieur Malin's arrival he has been gloomy," replied the old woman. "But it is getting damp here, let us go in."
The marquis wished to excavate the hillock but he dared not employ the people of the neighborhood. Pressed by circumstances, he abandoned the intention, leaving in Michu's mind a strong conviction that the eminence had either the treasure or the foundations of the former abbey.
Tears came into Michu's eyes; he stood rooted to the floor. "Were there any witnesses when you aimed at Malin?" asked the Marquis de Chargeboeuf. "Grevin the notary was talking with him, and that prevented my killing him very fortunately, as Madame la Comtesse knows," said Michu, looking at his mistress.
Laurence, who knew all the by-ways of the forest, left the rest of the party and galloped towards the pavilion, Michu's old home. Though the building was closed and deserted, the iron gates were open, and traces of the recent passage of several horses struck Laurence instantly.
She took the abbe aside, and after obliging him to swear that he would keep the secret she was about to reveal as though it was said to him in the confessional, she showed him the fragments of Michu's letter, told him the contents of it, and also the secret of the hiding-place where the senator then was.
Michu's father-in-law had had, politically speaking, the confidence of the former representative to the Convention, through Grevin.
"See! that's where our corporal was thrown," said the man, pointing to a spot where the road they were following entered the rond-point. "Tell the captain to come and pick me up at Michu's, and I'll go with him to Troyes." So saying Corentin got down, and stood about for a few minutes examining the ground.
My suspicions are very slight, and I feel no certainty whatever for this reason. The two men who seized me put me on horseback behind the man who blindfolded me, and whose hair was red like Michu's.
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