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"You will do it without him," replied Zotique, confidently. Chrysler looked closely at the approaching figure, growing larger and clearer. "Where is he Member for?" he asked. "Member for Hoang-ho in partibus infidelium," replied Zotique, sarcastically. Picault sauntered up with a smile of unfaltering genial sang-froid, bowed, removed his cigar, and addressed them.
"Until, he began to control the politicans," he immediately resumed, "Picault was a bankrupt financier. Now he is nominally a banker with millions. Once bribed or scandalized, your politician is broken in; and Picault's favourite maxim is 'You can buy the Pope, and pay less for a Cardinal." "I want to get out of this house!"
Vast contracts are given at extravagant prices to persons who pay a large share to our friends. Then the works, such as railways, are sold, if possible to Picault, or through him in the same manner. And finally, by this system no burden is left upon the Treasury except the loan to be paid.
A whirl of rapid thoughts made it some time till I could regain presence of mind, and I found my eyes following her feverishly into the weavings of another waltz, and was roused by the "Salut, Monsieur," of a quiet man who did not know me, but turned out from his remarks, to be Picault, the owner of the mansion.
"He is the honest-man-figure-head and book-keeper of the Cave. "What does our host, Mr. Picault do?" I said, to change the subject. What was my surprise when he answered: "Picault is the Arch Devil the organizer of the Cave the man who manipulates the Government for the profit of his accomplices.
Let the struggle rest on our fundamental emotions of race! Why can we not" The face of the impetuous schoolmaster began to flame into eagerness and fire. "Because," interrupted Haviland, firmly, "we are in this particular country. Would you have us enter upon a campaign of injustice and ill-will? Leave that, and the glory of it, to Grandmoulin and to Picault!"
"But you will not let us lie a little in protection of you," retorted Zotique. "To me the moral law is to beat Picault."
"At that moment, sir, there would be what I live for in the name 'Blue." Picault drew a deliberative puff at his cigar, and lowered it again. "You will not, then, do me the honor of a personal interview?" he asked, smiling unprovokably still. "Cease, cease!" replied Haviland, "It will soon be the noon of plain words!"
The young energies of Haviland responded readily. Their speeches were reported in full for the journals of the cities and watched for everywhere. It was the battle of Cataline and Cicero. The back parishes were not so soundly "Red" as Dormillière: they usually polled a considerable Blue vote, and were very unstable. Here were concentrated the efforts of Grandmoulin to cajole and Picault to buy.
A flash of the whip, a leap of the two animals, Picault careening into the ditch, and Chamilly flying into Miséricorde. "Nobleness still makes us proud" The election was Haviland's.
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