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Updated: May 15, 2025
The poor priest all through the night, in his deep distress, did not say a word which could imply that his gown covers Jacques Collin." "That shows that he is used to prison life," said the police agent. Napolitas, Bibi-Lupin's secretary, being unknown to the criminals then in the Conciergerie, was playing the part of the young gentlemen imprisoned for forgery.
And he drew away from Napolitas, of whom he had been very suspicious from the first. Then he said to his pals in an undertone: "He is on the bottom step of the Abbaye de Monte-a-Regret, but I am the Prior! I will show you how well I know how to come round the beaks. I mean to snatch this boy's nut from their jaws." "For the sake of his breeches!" said Fil-de-Soie with a smile.
But the Spaniard walked very slowly, and when he was getting near to Julien he tottered and signed to la Pouraille to give him his arm. "He is a murderer," said Napolitas to the priest, pointing to la Pouraille, and offering his own arm. "No, to me he is an unhappy wretch!" replied Jacques Collin, with the presence of mind and the unction of the Archbishop of Cambrai.
When Monsieur Gault left the sham priest, he returned through the parlor to his office, and went in search of Bibi-Lupin, who for twenty minutes, since Jacques Collin had gone downstairs, had been on the watch with his eye at a peephole in a window looking out on the prison-yard. "Not one of them recognized him," said Monsieur Gault, "and Napolitas, who is on duty, did not hear a word.
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