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'It was you who told Toussac to kill the man from Bow Street, and it was you also who set fire to the house in the Rue Basse de la Rampart. And now you turn on us! 'I did that because I wished to be the one to throw light upon it all and at the proper moment. 'That is very fine, Charles, but what will be thought about that when I make it all public in my own defence?
'We imperil our own safety if he goes with our secret. 'The devil take our own safety! cried Toussac. 'What has that to do with the matter? We imperil the success of our plans that is of more importance. 'The two things go together, replied Lesage. 'There is no doubt that Rule 13 of our confederation defines exactly what should be done in such a case.
'Surrender, Toussac! cried Savary. 'It is useless to attempt to escape us. A hoarse laugh sounded from behind the door. 'I am not a man who surrenders. But I will make a bargain with you. I have a small matter of business to do to-night. If you will leave me alone, I will give you my solemn pledge to surrender at the camp to-morrow. I have a little debt that I wish to pay.
I do not know what reply he might have made to this evasion, but at that moment we heard a couple of pistol shots and a distant shouting from far away in the darkness. We stopped for a few minutes, but all was silent once more. 'They must have caught sight of Toussac, said my companion. 'I am afraid that he is too strong and too cunning to be taken by them.
No one could be more averse from cruelty than I am, but you were present with me some months ago when Toussac silenced the man from Bow Street, and certainly it was done with such dexterity that the process was probably more painful to the spectators than to the victim. He could not have been aware of the horrible sound which announced his own dissolution.
But we shall have him yet, and between ourselves we shall keep a very strict guard upon the Emperor's person until we do, for Master Toussac is not a man to be despised. I seemed to feel his great rough thumb upon my chin as I answered that I thought he was a very dangerous man indeed. 'The Emperor will see you presently, said Savary.
Let us put him in here, and pass on to business. We can deal with him when we have finished. 'And have him overhear all that we say, said Lesage. 'I don't know what the devil has come over you, cried Toussac, turning suspicious eyes upon my protector. 'I never knew you squeamish before, and certainly you were not backward in the affair of the man from Bow Street.
The distance to the ground was so great that no one could have survived the fall, but Toussac had taken advantage of the presence of that cart full of grain-sacks, which I have described as having lain close to the mill. This had both shortened the distance and given him an excellent means of breaking the fall.
'There's another rule besides Rule 13, and that's the one that says that if any man shelters an offender he shall be treated as if he was himself guilty of the offence. This attack did not shake the serenity of my champion in the least. 'You are an excellent man of action, Toussac, said he calmly; 'but when it comes to choosing the right course, you must leave it to wiser heads than your own.
I am sitting reading my paper and smoking my pipe of coltsfoot, as my custom is about this time of the evening, and suddenly, without a word, a man comes flying through my window, covers me with glass, and opens my door to his friends outside. I've had trouble enough with my one lodger all day without three more of you turning up. 'You have the conspirator Toussac in your house.
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