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Updated: May 10, 2025
No one knew what he had been formerly; a pedlar, said some, a banker at Routot, according to others. What was certain was, that he made complex calculations in his head that would have frightened Binet himself. Polite to obsequiousness, he always held himself with his back bent in the position of one who bows or who invites.
No one knew what he had been formerly; a pedlar said some, a banker at Routot according to others. What was certain was that he made complex calculations in his head that would have frightened Binet himself. Polite to obsequiousness, he always held himself with his back bent in the position of one who bows or who invites.
Rose Andree went indoors and returned almost at once, disguised beyond recognition in a long cloak and a veil that shrouded her face; and they all took the road back to Routot. At the inn, Rose Andree passed as a friend whom they had been to fetch in the neighbourhood and were taking to Paris with them. Renine ran out to make enquiries and came back to the two women. "It's all right.
"Adolphe, take the left bank of the Seine." He unfolded a motoring-map on his knees and, tracing the route with his finger, showed Hortense that, if you draw a line from Le Havre, or rather from Quillebeuf, where the road crosses the Seine, to Dreux, where the stolen car was found, this line passes through Routot, a market-town lying west of the forest of Brotonne: "Now it was in the forest of Brotonne," he continued, "according to what I heard, that the second part of The Happy Princess was filmed.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, they met a dozen men who, having finished work for the day, were returning to the villages near by. "Will this path take us to Routot?" ask Renine, in order to open a conversation with them. "No, you're turning your backs on it," said one of the men, gruffly. And he went on, accompanied by his mates. Hortense and Renine stood rooted to the spot.
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