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"Here is the certificate of his birth," said Pierre. "You knew Simon's writing, for you intercepted his letters to your father. Look! these lines tell the story." "I, eldest son of the Marquis de Fongereues, declare, on my sacred word of honor, that the child who bears my name and passes for my son, is the child of Jacqueline Lemaître and the Vicomte de Talizac."
La Roulante uttered a cry as they reached the house, for the door was open. She ran into the house, and flew toward the stairs. Fanfar was behind her. She beheld the window open. "Look!" she cried, "he has taken her away!" "Of whom do you speak?" "Of the Vicomte de Talizac." "Talizac!" exclaimed Fanfar, "would that I could kill that man!" The house was searched, and found entirely deserted.
Ah, that infamous Talizac! again and again he crosses my path; but if I catch him now, I will stamp upon him like a worm!" "Do you intend to follow the robbers?" "Certainly, I must rescue the girl." "Monsieur Fanfaro," said Montferrand, "do with me what you will, I will help you!"
"You are a little hard on us, I think," said La Roulante, with a sneer, "but I suppose when people are rich they can say and do as they please!" "Is that the room?" Talizac asked, as he reached the top of the stairs, "if so, open the door at once, or I will force it!" "No, you won't injure my house like that! But you want to see her, do you? Very well, I will show her to you, then."
Brought up in the traditions of the nobility, Irene did not think of resisting her mother when the latter told her that her engagement with the Vicomte de Talizac would be announced that evening. Irene loved Fanfaro with all the fervor of her soul, but she would never have dared to tell her mother of her attachment for the acrobat.
A rescue was at hand, in a marriage of the vicomte with the young Countess of Salves, but this rescue rested on a weak footing, as a new escapade of "The Talizac Buckle," as the heir of the Fougereuse was mockingly called, might destroy the planned union.
But to return to this man, you are sure he is the friend and accomplice of Talizac?" "I am sure." "I have never seen my brother, but I know him to be one of the bitterest enemies France has. He has fought against us, and I have heard that he is nearly ruined.
"Ah, it is serious then," remarked Arthur. He knew that Talizac was often short and feared that he was about to ask for a loan. The young men dined with good appetite, and as the waiter placed the dessert upon the table, the vicomte threw a glass filled with red wine against the wall and exclaimed: "Champagne, bring champagne!"
Jules de Fougereuse, the brother of the Vicomte de Talizac, married, under the name of Jules Fougeres, the sister of the dead woman, and both of them took care of the child. They brought the boy up as if he had been their own, and in the village of Leigoutte no one suspected that little Jacques was only an adopted child. In the year 1814 you induced the Cossacks to destroy Leigoutte.
"What are you waiting for?" asked the vicomte, in a maudlin voice. "Gentlemen, the little one is so pure," said the landlord, earnestly. "Are we going to ruin her?" exclaimed Talizac, with a laugh. "She shall sing, and we will pay her well for it. She shall get a hundred francs; is that enough?" The landlord considered.
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