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I could only lie and listen. 'The fact remains, my dear Charles, that the fellow has our all-important secret, and that it is our lives or his. 'I recognised in the voice which was now speaking that of the man of the cottage. 'We owe it to ourselves to put it out of his power to harm us. Let him sit up, Toussac, for there is no possibility of his escaping.
He was fumbling at the animal's throat, and I could not see what he was doing, until it gave a sudden sharp yelp of pain, and there was a rending sound like the tearing of canvas. The man staggered up with his hands dripping, and the tawny mass with the blotch of crimson lay motionless upon the floor. 'Now! cried Toussac in a voice of thunder, 'now! and he rushed from the hut.
It was an important question for us, and, as things have turned out, more important still for him. I made my little plan, therefore. I waited until I saw you approach, and I then left him alone in the hut. I watched through the window and saw him fly to the hiding-place. We then entered, and I asked you, Toussac, to be good enough to lift him down and there he lies.
On and on we hurried in the dark, and then suddenly I could have raised a shout of joy, for there in the distance was a yellow glimmer of light, only visible in contrast with the black darkness which lay between. The door was open. In his mad thirst for vengeance Toussac had never given a thought to the pursuers at his heels. And now we need no longer grope.
I called him back into the hut, therefore, in order that I might have time to consider what I had best do with him. 'Sapristi! a couple of cuts of that wood-axe, and a bed in the softest corner of the marsh, would have settled the business at once, said the fellow by my side. 'Quite true, my good Toussac; but it is not usual to lead off with your ace of trumps.
I gave you the means of tracking Toussac, but you let the hound slip. I certainly think that you will have to answer to the Emperor for the way in which you have managed the business. 'That, sir, is our affair, said General Savary sternly. 'In the meantime you have not told us who this person is.
A younger officer with two troopers at his heels came clanking in to the hut, and the wretched creature, half swooning, was dragged out into the darkness. 'Where is the other the man called Toussac? 'He killed the hound and escaped. Lesage would have got away also had I not prevented him.
Oh, Etienne, here is the woman who is worthy of you! These were the little sentences which he kept muttering to himself until she vanished over the hill, when he became conscious at last of my presence. 'You are mademoiselle's cousin? he asked. 'You are joined with me in doing something for her. I do not yet know what it is, but I am perfectly ready to do it. 'It is to capture Toussac.
A good many people got those fine ideas into their heads, but the heads have mostly dropped into the sawdust-basket by this time. Toussac was true to them, and when instead of peace he found war, instead of comfort a grinding poverty, and instead of equality an Empire, it drove him mad.
We saw the lugger, and someone was landed from it just after the boat that brought me over pushed off. I remembered that boat, which had been the first thing which I had seen upon the coast of France. How little I had thought what it would mean to me! And now my advocate began asking questions vague, useless questions in a slow, hesitating fashion which set Toussac grumbling.
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