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He really wished he could, for he liked his kindly visitor. "Can you suggest anything that we could do to help you?" "Yes," said the Senator frankly. "My son, Monsieur le Prefet, has not the same trust in the hotel-keeper, Poulain, that I feel. Neither, I am bound to tell you, has Mrs. Dampier.
Remember that Cosmo Mornington's will explicitly states that no heir's claim will be valid unless he is present at to-day's meeting." "And suppose he does not come?" asked the Prefect, thus showing that Don Luis's conviction had gradually got the better of his doubts. "He will come, Monsieur le Préfet. If not, there would have been no sense in all this business.
And this was said in such a way and the movement executed with so much decision that the Prefect muttered, as though wavering: "I don't quite see " "You soon will, Monsieur le Préfet." And, speaking in a slow voice, laying stress on every syllable that he uttered, he began: "Monsieur le Préfet, the position is as clear as daylight.
By character, and perhaps by the necessities of my career, I am over-timid to public opinion, public scandal. Forgive me. Say if in anything now I can requite, though but slightly, the service I owe you." De Mauleon looked steadily at the Prefet, and said slowly, "Would you serve me in turn? Are you sincere?" The Prefet hesitated a moment, then answered firmly, "Yes."
Fauville's accusation and to foil the trick of the turquoise. But M. Desmalions will never admit that this is a similar attempt and that Gaston Sauverand has tried, as Marie Fauville did, to get me out of the way by compromising me and procuring my arrest." "Well," exclaimed M. Desmalions impatiently, "answer! Defend yourself!" "No, Monsieur le Préfet, it is not for me to defend myself,"
But presently there arrived a quiet American lady, who began to make friends with the people of Vitrimont, to find out what they wanted, and to consult with all those on the spot who could help to bring the visions in her mind to pass, with the Préfet, with the officials, local and governmental, of the neighbouring towns, with the Catholic women of the richer Lorraine families, gentle, charitable, devout, who quickly perceived her quality, and set themselves to co-operate with her.
Added to it," he continued, "we have the terrible presumption that I had every interest in the removal of M. Fauville and his son, inasmuch as, if there is no heir of Cosmo Mornington's in existence, I come into a hundred million francs. Exactly. There is therefore nothing for me to do, Monsieur le Préfet, but to go with you to the lockup or else " "Or else what?"
It will take place at three o'clock in the morning. At three o'clock in the morning, to-day, Monsieur le Préfet!" The voice faltered and then continued: "Go away, please. Let no one remain in the house. You must believe me. I know everything about the business. And nothing can prevent the threat from being executed. Go, go, go!
You will remember, Monsieur le Préfet, that the other experiment was tried before and the letter was not delivered." "We will try it again," replied M. Desmalions, who, in spite of everything, was really afraid of Don Luis's interference, and increased his measures to make it impossible. Meanwhile, as the night wore on, the minds of all those present became impatient.
It seems that they prove, in the most positive manner, that you are descended from the Roussel family and that you consequently have every right to the Mornington inheritance." The cry was a spontaneous exclamation of astonishment and protest. And she at once went on, insistently: "I, a right to the inheritance? I have none at all, Monsieur le Préfet, none at all. I never knew Mr. Mornington.
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