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Updated: June 11, 2025
And you will be there invisible unless cause arises for you also to become visible. But the details can be settled later. Come, will you write the letter?" Paul de Roustache thought a moment, nodded, rose, and was about to follow Guillaume into the inn. But he stopped again and laid a hand on his new friend's shoulder. "If your innkeeper is so intelligent and so faithful "
"What are you going to tell old Guillaume?" he asked. "I'm going to tell him that my claim against his employers is reduced by the amount that I have had the honour to hand you, M. de Roustache. Pardon me, but you seem to forget the remark I permitted myself to make just now." And the Captain pointed to the river.
And there is no harm in being popular with the with er my department, instead of being well, rather unpopular, eh, my dear M. de Roustache?" Paul did not contest this insinuation nor show any indignation at it; the wink which accompanied it he had the self-respect to ignore. "What do you want from him?" he asked, discerning Guillaume's point, and making straight for it.
Separating them one from another, he tore them into small fragments and scattered them over the stream. Paul watched him, sullen but without resistance. Dieppe turned to him. "You have no possible claim against the Countess," he remarked; "no possible hold on her, Monsieur de Roustache." Paul finished the flask for himself this time, shivered again, and swore pitifully.
Again Guillaume as he wished to be called touched his companion's arm. "I too have a matter to discuss with that gentleman," he said. Paul looked surprised. "M. de Roustache," Guillaume continued with an insinuating smile, "is not ignorant of recent events; he moves in the world of affairs. I think we might help one another.
"Get into the carriage go to Sasellano; catch Paul if you can, but leave me in peace," he said, and, diving into his pocket, he produced the five notes of a thousand francs which Paul de Roustache, in some strange impulse of repentance, or gratitude, had handed to him. "What you tell your employers," he added, "I don't care. This is a gift from me to you.
"I am safe, and you are safe," said he, returning the pressure of her hand. "And where is our friend outside?" "I don't know I lay hidden till I heard him go. I don't know where he went. What do you mean by saying I'm safe?" "I have got rid of Paul de Roustache. He 'll trouble you no more." "What?" Wonder and admiration sparkled in her eyes.
"Well, then," said Dieppe, with an air of courteous apology, "shall we say skulking?" "You shall pay for that!" "With pleasure, if you convince me that it is a gentleman who asks satisfaction." Paul de Roustache smiled. "At my convenience," he said, "I will give you a reference which shall satisfy you most abundantly." He drew back, lifted his hat, and bowed.
In fine, Count Andrea, not content now to rely on her dishonoured honour, but willing to trust to her strong religious feelings, had demanded of her an oath that she would hold no further communication of any sort, kind, or nature with Paul de Roustache. The oath was a terrible oath to be sworn on a relic which had belonged to the Cardinal and was most sacred in the eyes of the Fieramondi.
The sooner he found the shepherd's hut the better: if it were open, he would enter; it not, he could at least get some shelter under the lee of it. But he trusted that the Countess would keep her tryst punctually: she must be come and gone before seven o'clock, or she would risk an encounter with her enemy, Paul de Roustache.
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