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"Why?" asked Theodose, feeling his spinal column liquidizing as if the discharge of some inward electric fluid had melted it. "The house is ours." "How?" "Claparon has bit it in under the name of one of his creditors, a little toad named Sauvaignou. Desroches, the lawyer, has taken the case, and you'll get a notice to-morrow. This affair will oblige Claparon, Dutocq, and me to raise funds.
It is therefore not astonishing that he disregarded the customs of the bar and went to Desroches's office, to study Sauvaignou and take part in the struggle, in spite of the danger he ran in thus placing himself visibly before the eyes of one of the most dreaded attorneys in Paris. As he entered the office and made his salutations, he took note of Sauvaignou.
"Yes; your client must now hand over to us the fifty thousand francs we have spent on finishing the house, according to the contract between Thuillier and Grindot. I did not tell you that yesterday," he added, turning to Godeschal. "Do you hear that?" said Desroches to Sauvaignou. "That's a case I shall not touch without proper guarantees."
"What am I to say to Cerizet, who put the matter into my hands?" he added, as the barrister returned to them. "Tell him that Sauvaignou forced your hand," replied la Peyrade. "And you fear nothing?" said Desroches, in a sudden manner. "I? oh no! I want to give Cerizet a lesson." "To-morrow, I shall know the truth," said Desroches, in a low tone, to Godeschal; "no one chatters like a beaten man."
Sauvaignou had thereupon appealed to the court of commerce for recognition as creditor with a lien on the property. He was a stocky little man, dressed in a gray linen blouse, with a cap on his head, and was seated in an armchair.
"There is something behind all this," said Desroches in an undertone to Godeschal, as la Peyrade followed Sauvaignou into the clerk's office. "The Thuilliers get a splendid piece of property for next to nothing," replied Godeschal; "that's all." "La Peyrade and Cerizet look to me like two divers who are fighting under water," replied Desroches.
"But, messieurs," said Sauvaignou, "I can't negotiate this matter until I have seen the worthy man who paid me five hundred francs on account for having signed him that bit of a proxy." "Are you from Marseilles?" said la Peyrade, in patois. "Oh! if he tackles him with patois the fellow is beaten," said Godeschal to Desroches in a low tone. "Yes, monsieur," replied the Marseillais.
When Desroches had assured him that la Peyrade was really a barrister in good standing, Sauvaignou signed the relinquishment, which contained a receipt for the amount, principal and interest, of his claim, made in duplicate between himself and Thuillier, and witnessed by the two attorneys; so that the paper was a final settlement of the whole matter.
"Don't deposit the deed with Cardot till after twelve o'clock," returned Desroches. "Hay! comrade," cried the barrister, in Provencal, following Sauvaignou into the next room, "take your Margot to walk about Belleville, and be sure you don't go home." "I hear," said Sauvaignou. "I'm off to-morrow; adieu!" "Adieu," returned la Peyrade, with a Provencal cry.
"You may congratulate yourself," he added, making Sauvaignou sign the paper, "that you've earned that money pretty easily." "It is really mine, isn't it, monsieur?" said the Marseillais, already uneasy. "Yes, and legally, too," replied Desroches, "only you must let your man know this morning that you have revoked your proxy under date of yesterday.
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