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It will bring you luck too. Take your pick! A present from Pancaldi, to make up to you for your defeat! Does that suit you?" He put a stool against the wall, under the shelf, took down a statuette and plumped it into Renine's arms. And, laughing heartily, growing more and more excited as his enemy seemed to yield ground and to fall back before his spirited attack, he explained: "Well done!
"Still, I must repeat that nobody, to my knowledge, has been to my rooms; that there is only one key; that I am my own housekeeper; and that I can't quite understand...." Hortense too could not understand. With her eyes fixed on Prince Renine's, she was trying to read his innermost thoughts. What game was he playing? Was it her duty to support his statements? She ended by saying: "Mr.
But his wife fell on her knees at Renine's feet and stammered: "No, no ... I entreat you!... It would mean going to prison and I don't want to go!... And then my son!... Oh, I entreat you!..." Hortense, seized with compassion, took Renine to one side: "Poor woman! Let me intercede for her." "Set your mind at rest," he said. "Nothing is going to happen to her son." "But your two friends?"
He asked: "And how could he have left his father's house?" "In a trap, quite simply." "Who drove it?" "The father. This morning the sergeant and I saw the trap and spoke to the father, who was going to market as usual. The son was hidden under the tilt. He took the train at Pompignat and is in Paris by now." Renine's explanation, as promised, had taken hardly five minutes.
Speak ... and speak at once! If not ...!" M. de Lourtier had no strength left in him. All resistance was impossible. It was not that Renine's attack alarmed him, or that he was yielding to this act of violence, but he felt crushed by that indomitable will, which seemed to admit no obstacle, and he stammered: "You are right. It is my duty to tell everything, whatever comes of it."
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