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Robeckal carefully put the blade of his knife between them, and Rolla poured the liquid down Louison's throat. "Now come downstairs with me," she said, turning to Robeckal, "and if your vicomte comes you will praise me." The worthy pair now left Louison, who was sleeping; and after Rolla had tightly locked the door and put the key in her pocket, they both strode to the basement.
Here they entered a small, dirty room, and Rolla had just filled two glasses with rum when a carriage stopped in front of the door. "Here they are," said Robeckal, hastily emptying his glass and going to the street door, from whence came the sound of loud knocks. Shortly afterward he returned in company with Talizac and Velletri.
Come, I am hungry." Firejaws looked at his wife in amazement. Her face, which had been purple with anger, was now overspread by a broad grin, and shrugging his shoulders, Girdel walked toward the house. Fanfaro followed, and Robeckal and Rolla remained alone. "We must make an end of it, Rolla," grumbled Robeckal. "I am satisfied. The sooner the better!" "Good. I shall do it to-night.
He then walked to Rolla and mockingly whispered: "This time you reckoned without your host." Rolla shuddered, and a look flew from Bobichel to Fanfaro. Robeckal now thought it proper to appear and come from behind a post. He said in a whining voice: "Thank God that our brave master lives. I dreaded the worst."
"To the south of France," repeated Robeckal. "To Toulon." "To Toulon?" cried the wretch, in terror. "That is impossible!" "And why should it be impossible?" asked Vidocq, smiling maliciously. "Because because," stammered Robeckal, faintly, "the sentence " "Was death by strangulation.
With her arms folded across her bosom, she gazed at the black waters; the murmuring waves played about her feet and then she paused so long long Robeckal and Rolla hurried through the streets with feverish haste. The ground burned under their feet, and they did not dare to breathe before they had turned their back upon the capital. They were just turning into the Rue St.
It would be a crime against society to allow you to continue your bad course. No, thank God, the judges in France know their duty." With these words, Vidocq beckoned to four muscular men to enter the cell. They seized Robeckal and put handcuffs and chains on him, in spite of his cries and entreaties.
When Robeckal and Rolla, after listening nearly two hours, slipped downstairs they had heard all that Girdel and the two gentlemen had said. They knew Fanfaro had been deputed to take important papers to Paris and give them to a certain person who had been designated; Girdel had guaranteed that Fanfaro would fill the mission promptly.
The next minute hurried steps were heard coming up the stairs, and Rolla hastened to open the locked door. It was Robeckal, who entered with a small bottle in his hand. When Louison saw him she turned deathly pale, and running to the window she burst the panes with her clinched fist and called loudly for help. "Minx!" hissed Robeckal, forcibly holding her back and throwing her to the ground.
As no answer came, he burst open the door, and then uttered an oath. "Confound them they have fled!" exclaimed Robeckal. "Yes, the nest is empty," said the brigadier; "look, there at the window, the bed-sheets are still hanging with which they made their escape." "You are right," growled Robeckal; "but they cannot be very far off yet."
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