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Updated: June 10, 2025
"It would have cost you less to give security for the debt at first," said Eve, leaving the cradle to greet her father-in-law with a kiss. "And how, pray, do I come to owe you seven hundred francs?" the old man asked, looking at Petit-Claud. "Why, in the first place, I am engaged by you. Your rent is in question; so, as far as I am concerned, you and our debtor are one and the same person.
If you won't do fairly by me, I know your cards, and I shall play for my own hand." The tall Cointet took his hat and umbrella, his face at the same time taking its Jesuitical expression, and out he went, bidding Petit-Claud come with him. "You shall see, my friend, whether I have prepared your way for you," said he.
Meanwhile old Sechard took his son's silence as an insult, and Petit-Claud, taking advantage of his client's bewilderment, beat a retreat. "Good-bye, my dear David; you have had warning, notice of appeal doesn't invalidate the warrant for arrest. It is the only course left open to your creditors, and it will not be long before they take it.
He even went downstairs and as far as the corner with the visitors, telling Petit-Claud that after Cointet's recommendation, both he and Mme. de Senonches were disposed to approve all that Mlle. de la Haye's trustee had arranged for the welfare of that little angel. "Oh!" cried Petit-Claud, as they came away, "what a plain girl! I have been taken in "
When she saw him turn the same cold eyes on her, the same look that the Cointets had given her, and Petit-Claud and Cerizet, she tried to watch and guess old Sechard's intentions. Trouble thrown away! Old Sechard, never sober, never drunk, was inscrutable; intoxication is a double veil.
Let us have nothing in writing." "Then you mean to ruin Sechard?" asked Petit-Claud. "Not exactly; but he must be in jail for some time " "And what is the object?" "Do you think that I am noodle enough to tell you that? If you have wit enough to find out, you will have sense enough to hold your tongue." "Old Sechard has plenty of money," said Petit-Claud.
"Pshaw!" said David; "I shall see Petit-Claud to-morrow no doubt," and he turned and slept on the filthy mattress covered with coarse brown sacking. So when Eve unconsciously played into the hands of the enemy that morning, she found her husband more than ready to listen to proposals.
A difficulty awaited them at the outset. How was it possible to draw up a deed of partnership unless they knew David's secret? And if David divulged his secret, he would be at the mercy of the Cointets. Petit-Claud arranged that the deed of partnership should be the first drawn up.
"Oh! my darling, do not trouble yourself; Petit-Claud will guarantee that we shall not be molested for several months to come. There will be a good deal of expense over it; but, as Petit-Claud said when he came to the door with me, 'A Frenchman has a right to keep his creditors waiting, provided he repays them capital, interest, and costs. Very well, then, we shall do that "
"In three years' time," continued Petit-Claud, "I shall be public prosecutor in Angouleme. You may have need of me some day; bear that in mind." "It's agreed," said Cerizet, "but you don't know me. Burn that letter now and trust to my gratitude." Petit-Claud looked Cerizet in the face.
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