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Updated: June 5, 2025
With great nonchalance he slipped off the rubber band, threw it and the pieces of cardboard on the table before me, leaving the documents loose to his hand. 'Now, Monsieur Valmont, he cried jauntily, 'you have been occupied for several days on this case, the case of my dear friend Bentham Gibbes, who is one of the best fellows in the world. 'He said the same of you, Mr. Dacre.
I shall be moving about Paris, not as Eugène Valmont, but as Paul Ducharme, the anarchist; therefore, there is some danger that as a stranger and a suspect I may be laid by the heels at the critical moment.
Gibbes said you had been kind enough to recommend me to his attention. May I ask how you came to hear of me? 'Ah! who has not heard of the renowned Monsieur Valmont, and as he said this, for the first time, there began to grow a suspicion in my mind that he was chaffing me, as it is called in England a procedure which I cannot endure.
'You're not offended at what I said in the meeting, I hope? 'Oh, no, I answered. 'That's right. You see, I once belonged to the Secret Service, and if my chief was there today, we would soon find ourselves in a cool dungeon. We couldn't trip up Eugène Valmont.
I could wish to make everyone around me happy if the expenditure of money would do it. 'That is a form of money-love, Lady Alicia, which will find a multitude of admirers. The girl shook her head and laughed merrily. 'I should so dislike to forfeit your esteem, Monsieur Valmont, and therefore I shall not reveal the depth of my cupidity.
Valmont flatters himself he is not yet middle-aged, but poor Ducharme does not need his sparse gray beard to proclaim his advancing years. Valmont vaunts an air of prosperity; Ducharme wears the shabby habiliments and the shoulder-stoop of hopeless poverty. He shuffles cringingly along the street, a compatriot not to be proud of.
Ah, she comes with my million a year and the house of Hyde Park. No, the only inhabitant of my real world whom I have yet seen is Monsieur Valmont, and he, alas! I find so changeable. But now, adieu frivolity, we must be serious, and she walked sedately by my side. 'Do you know where you are going, monsieur? You are going to church. Oh, do not look frightened, not to a service.
'No; I do not believe that he actually stole it, but I am persuaded he was an accessory after the fact is that the legal term? Now, Monsieur Valmont, we will say no more tonight. If I talk any longer about this crisis, I shall not sleep, and I wish, assured of your help, to attack the situation with a very clear mind tomorrow.
We remained in the gallery for some time after the major had left before Sanderson came to us again, carrying with him a packet. 'The carriage is waiting at the door, he said, 'and with your permission, Monsieur Valmont, I will accompany you to your flat. I smiled at the old man's extreme caution, but he continued very gravely: 'It is not that, Monsieur Valmont.
'I shall not fail to do so, Excellency, and in answer to your question just now, I had the honour of searching this mansion in the interests of the Secret Service of France. The Minister for Foreign Affairs laughed; a hearty laugh that expressed no resentment. 'I merely wished to compliment you, Valmont, on the efficiency of your search, and the excellence of your memory.
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