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It was a revelation, that visit of Mme. de Thaller's; and there was no need of very much perspicacity to guess her anxiety beneath her bursts of laughter, and to understand that it was a bargain she had come to propose.
Favoral and M. Chapelain entered a cab which had been sent for, and drove to M. de Thaller's. Left alone, Mlle. Gilberte had but one thought, to notify M. de Tregars, and obtain word from him. Any thing seemed preferable to the horrible anxiety which oppressed her.
A single fact will make the situation clearer to you. Less than an hour ago, M. de Thaller's stockholders, offered him money to make up the loss." And, after a moment of silence, "But this is not all. Justice has interfered; and M. de Thaller spent the morning with an examining-magistrate." "Well?"
"It would make me unhappy in the extreme." "Sir!" "For the reason which I have already told you, that I love Mlle. Gilberte Favoral with the deepest and the purest love, and that for the past three years she has been, before God, my affianced bride." Something like a flash of anger passed over Mme. de Thaller's eyes. "And I," she exclaimed, "I tell you that this marriage is senseless."
Annoyed at the sardonic tone of the commissary: "The fact is," resumed M. Chapelain, "Favoral was our friend; and, if we could get him out of the scrape, we would all willingly contribute." "It's a matter of ten or twelve millions, gentlemen." Was it possible? Was it even likely? Could any one imagine so many millions slipping through the fingers of M. de Thaller's methodic cashier?
The footman opened the middle one, which led to M. de Thaller's picture-gallery, a celebrated one in the financial world, and which had acquired for him the reputation of an enlightened amateur. But M. de Tregars had no time to examine this gallery, which, moreover, he already knew well enough.
M. de Thaller's creditors might not think that mode of proceeding entirely regular." "Then they might sue," said M. Chapelain, laughing. "People can always sue; only when the papers are well drawn " Mlle. Gilberte stood dismayed. She thought of Marius de Tregars giving up his mother's fortune to pay his father's debts. "What would he say," thought she, "should he hear such opinions!"
Then, timidly, and with infinite precautions, she commenced explaining that M. de Thaller's face inspired her with no confidence; that M. Jottras had seemed to her a very impudent personage; that M. Saint Pavin appeared low and vulgar; and that, finally, the young baroness had given her of herself the most singular idea. M. Favoral refused to hear more.
Maxence was about to express the thoughts which Mme. de Thaller's name naturally suggested to his mind, but Mlle. Lucienne interrupted him,
Evidently the Baron de Thaller must have had other means of action, some hold on Favoral " M. de Tregars interrupted him. "You speak," he said, "as if you were absolutely certain of M. de Thaller's complicity." "Of course." "Why don't you inform on him, then?" The editor of "The Pilot" started back. "What!" he exclaimed, "draw the fingers of the law into my own business! You don't think of it!
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