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The justice of peace called his attention to the condition of Michu's clothes and related the circumstances of his arrest. "They must have killed the senator and plastered the body up in some wall," said Pigoult. "I begin to fear it," answered Lechesneau. "Where did you carry that plaster?" he said to Gothard. The boy began to cry.
"Lieutenant," cried Corentin, "go instantly to Michu's house and find out what is going on there. They must have murdered the corporal." This news interfered with the mayor's breakfast.
The neighbors reproached him for his intimacy with "Judas"; but the sly old farmer, wishing to obtain a twelve years' lease, was really lying in wait for an opportunity to serve either the government or Malin, who distrusted Michu. Violette, by the help of the game-keeper of Gondreville and others belonging to the estate, kept Malin informed of all Michu's actions.
It is lucky for him that the President has taken this journey to turn us out, for now that great oaf of a Joseph Blondet will marry Mlle. Blandureau. I will let Father Blondet have some seeds in return. As for you, Camusot, go to M. Michu's, while Mme. la Duchesse and I will go to find old Blondet.
The neighborhood wondered that he kept his place, but supposed it was in consequence of the terror he inspired. It is easy now, after these explanations, to understand the anxiety and sadness expressed in the face of Michu's wife. In the first place, Marthe had been piously brought up by her mother. Both, being good Catholics, had suffered much from the opinions and behavior of the tanner.
After practising two years he was made assistant-judge at the court of Alencon, and from there he became procureur-du-roi at Arcis in 1827. Laurence, who had also taken charge of Michu's property, made over to the young man on the day of his majority an investment in the public Funds which yielded him an income of twelve thousand francs a year.
"Michu's double was not aware of this circumstance, or he would have provided for it," said Monsieur de Grandville, looking at the jury. "Neither has the prosecution shown what horses our clients rode." He ridiculed the testimony of Violette so far as it concerned a recognition of the horses, seen from a long distance, from behind, and after dusk.
But Michu's sentence was confirmed, and the warrant for his execution had been forwarded from the ministry of police. These orders had reached Troyes that very morning. Laurence went at once to the prison, though it was two in the morning, and obtained permission to stay with Michu, who was about to undergo the melancholy ceremony called "the toilet."
"At what hour did you get to Michu's house?" asked Corentin, noticing that the countess had glanced at the clock. "About two," replied the lieutenant.
Violette in his reports blackened all Michu's actions and gave them a criminal aspect by absurd suggestions, unknown, of course, to the bailiff, who was aware, however, of the base part played by the farmer, and took delight in mystifying him. "You must have a deal of business at Bellache to be here again," said Michu. "Again! is that meant as a reproach, Monsieur Michu? Hey!
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