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"Is it possible," replied Jacques, "that, with this fine house all to himself, he should take up with that old hut?" "Let us see," said Therese; "for he is certainly not here." When they readied Toussaint's cottage, it was no easy matter to know how to effect an entrance. Enormous gourds had spread their network over the ground, like traps for the feet of trespassers.
On hearing of Toussaint's misfortune they had come to see him, like good-hearted creatures, who, on their own side, had experienced the most cruel suffering.
After Toussaint's evidence considerable time was taken up by the discussions between the experts, who disagreed in public as much as they had disagreed in their reports. Although they were all of opinion that dynamite could not have been the explosive employed in the bomb, they indulged in the most extraordinary and contradictory suppositions as to this explosive's real nature.
Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was made up, and seemed to be waiting some one, and this was Jean Valjean's bed. Jean Valjean looked at the walls, closed some of the cupboard doors, and went and came from one room to another. Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table.
On his return, he summoned Bellines, and said, in the presence of several soldiers "How is the prisoner there?" pointing in the direction of Toussaint's cell. "He has been very quiet this morning, sir." "Very quiet? Do you suppose he is ill?" "He was as well as usual the last time I went to him." "He has had plenty of everything, I suppose?" "Oh, yes, sir. Wood, candle, food, water everything."
Immediately there was a proclamation annulling the decree of 1794 giving freedom to the slaves. Bonaparte, however, had not estimated the force of Toussaint's work, and to assist the Negroes in their struggle now came a stalwart ally, yellow fever. By the end of the summer only one-seventh of Le Clerc's army remained, and he himself died in November. At once Bonaparte planned a new expedition.
Toussaint's constitution was a challenge to Napoleon Bonaparte, who having temporarily made peace with England, determined to reestablish French authority in the island. He accordingly dispatched to Santo Domingo a fleet with a well-equipped army of 25,000 men under his brother-in-law, General Le Clerc.
Then she went to put the child to bed again, and on her return, just as Thomas and Pierre were about to speak to her of Toussaint's employer, M. Grandidier, a fresh visitor arrived. Thereupon the others decided to wait. The new comer was Madame Chretiennot, Toussaint's other sister, eighteen years younger than himself.
On one occasion, a faithful servant of Toussaint's was brought in dead shot from a thicket which his master was expected to pass. Now and then, some one mentioned retiring to the mountains; but Toussaint would not hear of it. He said it would be considered a breach of the treaty, and would forfeit all the advantages to be expected from a few weeks' patience.
English Socrates, Plutarch, Cornelius Nepos, etcetera, etcetera. Great mystery hangs over the tale of Toussaint's imprisonment and death. It has been suggested that torture was employed by Bonaparte's aide, Caffarelli, to procure the desired confession; but I do not know that the conjecture is founded on any evidence. As to the precise mode of L'Ouverture's death, there is no certainty.
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