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"But a business of that description in a town like Poitiers, does not bring in very remunerative results, and luckily she received for your support and education a sum of one thousand francs per year." This time Paul started from his seat, for he was sure that Tantaine could not have learned this secret at the Hotel de Perou.
"Aha," chuckled Tantaine, delighted at seeing Paul look so brisk and joyous, "our young cock is in full feather; last night he was decidedly rather nervous." "Yes," answered the doctor, "he is on the right road, and I think that we shall have no further trouble with him." They then thought it would be as well to see Mother Brigaut, and were received by the old woman with slavish deference.
He ain't a bad one, is Mascarin." Tantaine curled his lip disdainfully. "Not a bad fellow, I dare say, as long as you don't ask him for anything." Toto was so surprised at hearing Tantaine abuse Mascarin, that he was unable to utter a word.
The old portress was waiting for Tantaine, and as soon as she saw him coming down the stairs immersed in deep thought, out she ran toward him with as much alacrity as her corpulency would admit. "Did I do it all right?" asked she. "Hush!" answered he, pushing her quickly into her lodge, the door of which stood open.
"Come, come, my young friend," answered Daddy Tantaine, "you should not get angry; and if I did step in without any notice, it was because, as a neighbor, I find I might venture on such a liberty; for when I heard how embarrassed you were, I said to myself, 'Tantaine, perhaps you can help this pretty pair out of the scrape they have got into."
The day after the accident to Andre, Mascarin sent an anonymous communication to the head of the police, giving up Toto as the author of the crime, and saying where he could be found. "Of course," thought this wily plotter, "Toto will denounce Tantaine, but that worthy man is dead and buried, and I think that even the sharpest agents of the police will be unable to effect his resurrection."
"You have an account to settle with me?" asked Daddy Tantaine with a puzzled smile. "Yes; was it not through you that I was accused of theft by that old hag, Madame Loupins?" Tantaine shrugged his shoulders.
The famous Limited Company, with the Marquis as chairman, had, too, to be started, the shares of which were to be taken up by the unhappy victims of the blackmailers; but first some decided steps must be taken with the Mussidans, and Tantaine was dispatched on this errand.
Tantaine recoiled uneasily, for the old woman's gratitude was so demonstrative that he feared she was about to embrace him. "All you have to do is to stick firmly to what you have said about Paul," continued he, when he found himself at a safe distance; "and if ever you breathe a word of what you have been doing, he will hand you over to the law, and then take care of Article 386."
I easily found out her address, and set a watch on her." "And of what use will she be to you?" "Very little, I fear. And yet the allowance looks as if she had at one time done something out of the way for her employers. Can it be that she has any knowledge of the birth of this natural child?" "I don't think much of your idea," returned Tantaine carelessly.
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