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Roquefinette gave a cry which might have been taken for the roaring of a lion, and bounding back a step, threw himself on guard, his sword in his hand. Then began between these two men a duel, terrible, hidden, silent, for both were intent on their work, and each understood what sort of an adversary he had to contend with.
"To follow me into some cross-road and blow my brains out with your pistol, that this miserable head may be punished and not recognized." "Why so?" "Why? Because in such matters, when one fails one is but a fool: What am I to say to Madame de Maine now?" "What!" cried Roquefinette, "is it about that little hop-o'-my-thumb that you are bothering yourself?
"Hearken, captain." said D'Harmental, making a new effort to retain his sang-froid, and endeavoring to renew the negotiations, "I will give you twenty thousand francs down." "Trash," answered the captain. "I will take you with me to Spain." "Fiddlesticks." "And I engage on my honor to obtain you a regiment." Roquefinette began to hum a tune.
It was then that D'Harmental had recognized him, and had protected him against the first impulse of Roquefinette, inviting him to continue his route as quickly as possible.
You hand it over to me. That is all." "That is to say," answered D'Harmental, shaking his head, "that you wish to be free to loose the regent, if the regent offers you, for leaving him in France, twice as much as I offer you for taking him to Spain." "Perhaps," replied Roquefinette.
And a triple shout of laughter petrified the two conspirators leaning against the gate at the head of their breathless companions. "This man must have a compact with Satan," cried D'Harmental. "We have lost the bet, my friends," said Roquefinette, addressing his men, who stood waiting for orders, "but we do not dismiss you yet; it is only postponed.
Who says that anything on earth can frighten Captain Roquefinette?" "Not I, captain; for at the first glance, at the first word, I fixed on you as my second." "Ah! that is to say, that if you are hung on a scaffold twenty feet high, I shall be hung on one ten feet high, that's all!"
"Well! my dear Roquefinette, we wish to profit by the regent's returning unguarded from Chelles to carry him off and take him to Spain." "Before going any further," said Roquefinette, "I must warn you that this is a new treaty, and that every new treaty implies new conditions." "No need of discussions on that point. You shall fix them yourself; but can you still dispose of your men?" "I can."
The sound of his door opening called him out of his ecstasy: it was the pâté and the wine from Abbe Brigaud making their solemn entry into the chevalier's garret. The sight of these provisions recalled to his mind that he had now something better to do than to abandon himself to contemplation, and that he had given Captain Roquefinette a rendezvous on the most important business.
He had instantly recognized in him one of those adventurers always ready to sell their blood for a good price, and who, in time of peace, when their swords are useless to the State, place them at the service of individuals. On becoming a conspirator one always becomes superstitious, and D'Harmental fancied that it was an intervention of Providence which had introduced him to Roquefinette.
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