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On the contrary breakfast, a smoke, and a nap," corrected Guillaume in a contented tone. "Then, my friend, we shall be ready for anything that may occur for anything in the world we shall be ready." "I wonder if you will," thought Paul de Roustache, resentfully eyeing the glass which M. Guillaume had emptied.
For M. Paul de Roustache was not a police-spy, and, moreover, had never seen the gallant Captain in his life, and took no interest in him a state of things most unlikely to occur to the Captain's mind. Had Paul, then, fished for fishing's sake?
Finally, just about the same time also, Guillaume was rehearsing to Paul de Roustache exactly what they were to do and where their respective parts began and terminated. Paul was listening with deep attention, with a curious smile on his face, and with the inner reflection that things in the end might turn out quite differently from what his astute companion supposed would be the case.
"You know my name?" he exclaimed, with more perturbation than a stranger's knowledge of that fact about him should excite in an honest man. "It's my business to know people." "I don't know you." "That also is my business," smiled M. Guillaume. "But in this case we will not be too business-like. I will waive my advantage, M. de Roustache."
Then he would like to throw you off the scent by concealing his identity." "By heaven, and I nearly !" "Nearly did what, dear M. de Roustache?" said old Guillaume very softly. "Nearly dragged in the name of Madame la Comtesse, were you going to say?" "How do you know anything ?" began Paul. "A guess on my honour a guess! You affect the ladies, eh? Oh, we 're not such strangers as you think."
"What the devil's that for?" exclaimed Paul de Roustache in a low voice. He was not left without an answer. The watcher had cause for the smile that spread over his face, as, peeping out, he saw a man's figure rise from a seat and come forward. The next moment Paul was addressed in smooth and suave tones, and in his native language, which he had hurriedly employed in his surprised ejaculation.
There was nothing absolutely criminal in all this, unless the broken promise must be stigmatised as such; and of that Andrea had heard: he was aware that she had renewed acquaintance with M. de Roustache. The rest of the circumstances were so fatal in that they made it impossible for her to atone for this first lapse.
Otherwise he would try to force an interview under cover of night. These briefly indicated facts of the case, so appalling to the unhappy Countess, were on the other hand eminently satisfactory to M. Paul de Roustache. To be plain, they meant money, either from the Countess or from the Count.
In the result Paul de Roustache comfortably maintained his lead, and when he came into his pursuer's view was no more than twenty yards from the river, the Captain being still a good fifty from the point at which he had hoped to be stationed before Paul came up.
"And that perhaps I say only perhaps you have made free with the contents. For it seems you 've got rid of Paul de Roustache. Well, I will not complain " "Ah?" said the Captain with a movement of interest. "But if I lose my money, I must have my money's worth." "That 's certainly what one prefers when it's possible," smiled the Captain, indulgently. "To put it briefly "
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