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The old miser has got wind of his son's invention; he wants to turn it to his own account, so there is some hope of a partnership. You are with the father and the son " "Be the third person in the trinity and give them up," smiled Petit-Claud. "Yes," said Cointet. "When you have David in prison, or bound to us by a deed of partnership, you shall marry Mlle. de la Haye." "Is that your ultimatum?"
One cannot act the lover's part in rags." At six o'clock that morning Cerizet went to Petit-Claud. "Doublon can be ready to take his man to-morrow at noon, I will answer for it," he said; "I know one of Mlle. Clerget's girls, do you understand?" Cerizet unfolded his plan, and Petit-Claud hurried to find Cointet.
"Cerizet did not care to continue the lease of the plant and premises, hence our little money difficulties. We have no one at home now but Marion and Kolb, an Alsacien as trusty as a dog, and my wife and her mother " "One word," said Petit-Claud, "don't trust that dog " "You do not know him," exclaimed David; "he is like a second self." "May I try him?" "Yes," said Sechard.
It never occurred to the girl that she was doing wrong to act the spy, and Cerizet involved her in the guilt of betrayal by this first step. Lucien was still sleeping while Cerizet, closeted with Petit-Claud, heard the history of the important trifles with which all Angouleme presently would ring. The Cointets' foreman gave a satisfied nod as Petit-Claud came to an end.
Not every inventor has the tenacity of the bull-dog that will perish with his teeth fast set in his capture; the Cointets had shrewdly estimated David's character. The tall Cointet looked upon David's imprisonment as the first scene of the first act of the drama. The second act opened with the proposal which Petit-Claud had just made.
"Any arrangement that will give us a quiet life will do for me," said David. Petit-Claud called to his servant. "Paul! go and ask M. Segaud, my successor, to come here. He shall go to see the Cointets while we breakfast" said Petit-Claud, addressing his former clients, "and in a few hours' time you will be on your way home to Marsac, ruined, but with minds at rest.
"Let us have no beating about the bush," returned Boniface Cointet. "Listen to me." After that beginning, big with mysterious import, Cointet set himself down upon a bench, and beckoned Petit-Claud to do likewise. "When M. du Hautoy came to Angouleme in 1804, on his way to his consulship at Valence, he made the acquaintance of Mme. de Senonches, then Mlle.
But I want to know something of Lucien's plans before I set the snare for David; and here are you sending him into the house! Find some excuse for stopping here, at least, and when David and Lucien come out, send them round this way; they will think they are quite alone, and I shall overhear their good-bye." "You are a very devil," muttered Petit-Claud.
"Very well," said Petit-Claud, his zeal stirred by the prospect of such a career, "very well, be in the Place du Murier to-morrow at half-past four; I will see old Sechard in the meantime; we will have a deed of partnership drawn up, and the father and the son shall be bound thereby, and delivered to the third person of the trinity Cointet, to wit." To return to Lucien in Paris.
The quantity and the quality of the pulp modify every question at once. But who will guarantee that it will be the same with a batch of five hundred reams, and that your plan will succeed in bulk?" David, Eve, and Petit-Claud looked at one another; their eyes said many things. "Take a somewhat similar case," continued the tall Cointet after a pause.
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