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His spirit, his devilry, pleased Doltaire, and he laughed. "Who would have thought our Voban had such wit? The trade of barber is double-edged. Razors should be in fashion at Versailles." Then he sat down, while Voban made a pretty show of touching off my person.
"Beware to-night!" Voban whispered. "Come to me in the prison," said I. "Remember your brother!" His lips twitched. "M'sieu', I will if I can." This he said in my ear as Doltaire entered and came forward. "Upon my life!" Doltaire broke out. "These English gallants! They go to prison curled and musked by Voban. VOBAN a name from the court of the King, and it garnishes a barber.
And by-and-bye crack'll go his spine aho!" You have heard a lion growling on a bone. That is how Gabord's voice sounded to me then a brutal rawness; but it came to my mind also that this was the man who had brought Voban to do me service! "Come, come, Gabord, crack your jaws less, and see you fetch him on his feet again," said Doltaire.
The other was Voban. I knew that though Voban might not act, he would not betray me. But how to reach either of them? It was clear that I must bide my chances.
Voban hath promised to discover this for me. The soldier Gabord, at the citadel, he hath a good heart. Though thou canst expect no help from him, yet he will not be rougher than his orders. He did me a good service once, and he likes me, and I him. And so fare thee well, Robert. I will not languish; I will act, and not be weary. Dost thou really love me?"
He was like a vessel wrested from its moorings; like some craft, filled with explosives, set loose along a shore lined with fishing-smacks, which might come foul of one, and blow the company of men and boats into the air. As he stood there, his face half turned to me for a moment, this came to my mind, and I said to him, "Voban, you look like some wicked gun which would blow us all to pieces."
The most meagre intelligence came to me from the outer world. I no longer saw Gabord; he had suddenly been with drawn and a new jailer substituted, and the sentinels outside my door and beneath the window of my cell refused all information. For months I had no news whatever of Alixe or of those affairs nearest my heart. I heard nothing of Doltaire, little of Bigot, and there was no sign of Voban.
I was amazed that he should be there the man whose life had been spoiled by Bigot. At the same moment Doltaire motioned to him to return inside; which he did. Doltaire laughed at my surprise, and as he showed me inside the palace said: "There is no barber in the world like Voban. Interesting interesting! I love to watch his eye when he draws the razor down my throat.
Here she put both hands upon my shoulders and looked me in the eyes. I did not answer yet, but took her hands in mine, and she continued: "An hour past, I told my mother I should go to see my dear friend Lucie Lotbiniere. Then I stole up to my room, put on my brother's uniform, and came down to meet Voban near the citadel, as we had arranged.
He was staying at the moment with the Seigneur Pipon at his manor by the Montmorenci Falls. He must needs be sought there: he would never allow this shameless thing. So I bade Voban go thither at once, getting a horse from any quarter, and to ride as if for his life. He promised, and left me, and I returned to my room to think.
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