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So I agreed to undertake the business, but the old fellow was too sharp for me. 'Stop a bit, and let me finish, said he, 'and you will see that your task will not be so easy as you seem to think it. I, of course, bragged of my enormous sources of information, and the probability of ultimate success." "Keep to your story," said Tantaine impatiently, "I know all about that."
"I am cock sure of that too." "You can use carpenters' tools, I think you once told me?" "Yes." "Well," continued Tantaine, "let me tell you then that I know an old man with any amount of money, and there is a fellow whom he hates and detests, a young chap who ran off with the girl he loved." "The old bloke must have been jolly wild." "Well, to tell the truth, he wasn't a bit pleased.
As he ascended higher, he became aware of a strange sound, something between the grinding of scissors and the snarling of cats. Then a moment's silence, a loud execration, and a cry of pain. Tantaine passed on, and coming to a rickety door, he opened it, and in another moment found himself in what the old hag downstairs had called the music-room.
It was easy to see that Caroline Schimmel was yielding to his fascinations, for she had never had such extravagant compliments whispered in her ear in so persuasive a tone. But Tantaine did not confine his attentions to wine only: he first ordered a bowl of punch, and then followed that up by a bottle of the best brandy.
And finally by an odalisque, who fills his goblet with the foaming infusion of malt and hops. This odalisque is very fair and stout, and some fair Alsatian damsel has evidently sat as the model. As Tantaine was gazing upon this wondrous work of art he heard a squeaking voice just behind him. "That is certainly that young rogue Chupin," muttered he.
"No, Perpignan is only a fool; but he will do what I tell him." "Then I really do not see " "Do not see," exclaimed Tantaine; "but luckily for us all, I am not so blind. Have you forgotten this marriage of De Croisenois? There lies the danger. All had gone so smoothly, every combination had been arranged, and every difficulty foreseen, and now "
I went out and found a dirty-looking old scamp, with his coat collar turned up round the nape of his neck." "Did he say that his name was Tantaine?" exclaimed Andre. "Ah! was that his name? Well, it doesn't matter.
Ah, I have it!" he added, striking his forehead; "there has been a robbery, and you are in pursuit of the criminal. I must confess that the girl looked so poor, that I guessed there was something wrong. I saw her fingers tremble." "Pardon me," returned Daddy Tantaine. "I have said nothing about a robbery. I only wished to ask you if you would know the girl again?"
Toto was to creep into the unfinished building by night, and not to leave it until he had completed his work. Tantaine, who had a thought for everything, told the boy what sort of a saw to employ, and gave him the address of a man who supplied the best class instruments. "You must remember, my dear lad," said he, "not to leave behind you any traces of your work which may cause suspicion.
The ex-cook appeared before Tantaine in all his appalling vulgarity as the latter descended the stairs. The proprietor of the musical academy was a stout, red-faced man, with an insolent mouth and a cynical eye. He was gorgeously dressed, and wore a profusion of jewelry. He was much startled at seeing Tantaine, whom he knew to be the redoubtable Mascarin's right-hand man.
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