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"What?" cried Mademoiselle Scuderi, "not for her father? that girl impossible!" "Oh!" continued La Regnie, "remember the Brinvilliers! You must pardon me, if by-and-by I have to carry off your protégée, and put her in the Conciergerie." Mademoiselle Scuderi shuddered at this grizly notion.
As yet he will not confess; but there are means of making him speak against his will." "And Madelon!" cried Mademoiselle Scuderi, "that truthful, innocent creature." "Ah!" cried La Regnie, with one of his venomous smiles, "who answers to me that she is not in the plot, too? She does not care so very much about her father. Her tears are all for the murderer boy."
We ought now to be near the southern shore of the group." "We have been wedged off to sea by stranded ice, I should judge; for there, about fifteen miles to the northward, lies Amherst Island." "Yes, Regnar, we are now on the outer side of the pack, and the wind has shifted to the southward again. Look to the eastward, Regnie. Has not the pack broken up there?"
The very slightest suspicion rendered any one liable to severe imprisonment, and the establishment of the innocence of a person tried for his life was often only a matter of the merest chance. Besides, Regnie was repulsive to behold, and of malicious disposition, so that he excited the hatred of those whose avenger or protector he was called upon to be.
Regnar still seemed ill at ease, as if he wanted to inquire about something; and at last he said, abruptly, "Charley, what shall I say to my sister?" "Say to her, Regnie? Why, that you are delighted to see her, of course. You may add that you come to make her wealthy; that is not likely to hurt your reception," said La Salle, philosophically.
It seemed to her most advisable, before perhaps appealing to the King in person, to go to the President, La Regnie, point out for his consideration all the circumstances which made for Olivier's innocence, and so, perhaps, kindle in his mind a conviction favourable to the accused which might communicate itself beneficially to the judges.
It was in vain that Argenson, the Minister of Police, arrested every individual, in all Paris, who seemed to be touched by the very faintest suspicion; in vain La Regnie raged, striving to compel confession; in vain guards and patrols were reinforced. Not a trace of the perpetrators of those outrages was to be discovered.
One morning he came to President La Regnie, pale, distorted, almost out of his mind. "What is it what news? Have you come upon the clue?" the President cried to him as he came in. "Ah, Monsieur!" cried Desgrais, stammering in fury, "last night, near the Louvre, the Marquis de la Fare was set upon under my very nose!" "Heaven and earth!" cried La Regnie, overjoyed, "we have got them!"
"It is, Charley; and you will not let the caprice of a girl separate me from my friend will you, La Salle?" "Regnie," answered the other, not without a touch of tenderness in his tone, "the bonds which connect us are not the ties of passion, or the calm preferences of the selfish world.
"But all he had would go to the daughter! You forget that Olivier was to be Cardillac's son-in-law." "Perhaps he was compelled to share with others," said La Regnie, "or to do the deed wholly for them!" "Share! murder for others!" cried Mademoiselle Scuderi, in utter amaze.
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