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Updated: May 20, 2025
"But it would, it seems to me, be better for you to remain in your own country. The house on the Borderie is comfortable and convenient, since I have had it divided into three rooms and thoroughly repaired. "Upstairs is a room that has been fitted up by the best upholsterer in Montaignac. I intended it for you.
The marquis had returned to his chateau, accompanied by his daughter, and the duke had gone to Montaignac. The abbe's anxiety on receiving this intelligence was so poignant that he could not conceal it from Baron d'Escorval. "You have heard something, my friend," said the baron. "Nothing, absolutely nothing." "Some new danger threatens us." "None, I swear it."
Chupin tore his hair. "They are on the way," he repeated. "I speak of the peasants they intend to take possession of Montaignac, dethrone Louis XVIII., bring back the Emperor, or at least the son of the Emperor miserable wretches! they have deceived me. I suspected this outbreak, but I did not think it was so near at hand."
A grand banquet was given at Sairmeuse in honor of the betrothal a banquet all the more brilliant since there were other victories to be celebrated. The Duc de Sairmeuse had just received, with his brevet of lieutenant-general, a commission placing him in command of the military department of Montaignac.
Devoted to the Emperor, he found himself gravely compromised at the advent of the Second Restoration. At the time of the celebrated rising at Montaignac, he was arrested on the double charge of high treason and conspiracy. He was tried by a military commission, and condemned to death. The sentence was not executed, however.
We must procure a litter and carry Monsieur d'Escorval to the house of this honest peasant." "What, Monsieur," interrupted one of the officers, "you wish us to procure a litter at this hour of the night, and in this neighborhood?" "It must be done." "But, will it not awaken suspicion?" "Most assuredly." "The Montaignac police will follow us." "I am certain of it." "The baron will be recaptured!"
M. de Sairmeuse shrugged his shoulders. "And how will you procure a hundred feet of rope at this hour in Montaignac? Will you go about from shop to shop? You might as well trumpet your project at once." "I shall attempt nothing of the kind. What I cannot do the friends of the Escorval family will do." The duke was about to offer some new objection when his son interrupted him.
Certainly their confidence in the companion in their vigil was great; but he was not a regular physician like the other, the one whose coming they awaited. Just as the light of the morning made the candles turn pale, they heard the furious gallop of a horse, and soon the doctor from Montaignac entered.
It said: "This is to inform you that the authorities of Montaignac promise to give a reward of twenty thousand francs two thousand pistoles, you understand to him who will deliver up the man known as Lacheneur, dead or alive. Dead or alive, you understand. If he is dead, the compensation will be the same; twenty thousand francs! It will be paid in gold."
With a bound M. d'Escorval reached his son's chamber, looked at him and dashed out again, summoned a servant, and ordered him to gallop to Montaignac and bring a physician without a moment's delay. There was, indeed, a doctor at Sairmeuse, but he was the most stupid of men a former surgeon in the army, who had been dismissed for incompetency.
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