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Anthony looked with an air of perfect stupefaction, by turns at the magistrate and the commonwealth attorney, at Mechinet, and finally at Ribot, who had taken the lines, and tied Caraby to a tree. "I assure you, gentlemen, I do not know where M. de Boiscoran has spent the evening." "You have no suspicion?" "No." "Perhaps he went to Brechy to see a friend?"
Mechinet, who knew already all that was coming, laughed in his sleeve while his pen was flying rapidly over the paper. "He was afraid he might be recognized," continued the vagrant, "and so M. Jacques had been running ever so fast, keeping close to the wall, and choosing the narrowest lanes. Fortunately, I have a pair of very good legs.
How could all these circumstances have agreed so precisely if they had not been pre-arranged, and calculated beforehand? Our poor M. Daubigeon had tears in his eyes; and even that meddlesome fellow, Mechinet, the clerk, was quite overcome. M. Galpin was the only one who looked pleased; but then he was the magistrate, and he put the questions.
"To my dressmakers, the Misses Mechinet. I want a dress." "Great God!" cried Aunt Adelaide, "the child is losing her mind!" "I assure you I am not, aunt." "Then let me go with you." "Thank you, no. I shall go alone; that is to say, alone with dear grandpapa." And as M. de Chandore came back, his pockets full of bonds, his hat on his head, and his cane in his hand, she carried him off, saying,
But, in order to write to M. de Boiscoran, Dionysia's assistance was necessary; and she did not reappear till the afternoon, looking very pale, but evidently armed with new courage. M. Folgat dictated to her certain questions to ask the prisoner. She hastened to write them in cipher; and about four o'clock the letter was sent to Mechinet, the clerk. The next evening the answer came. "Dr.
Take back that fortune, madam, which has made an honest man waver for a moment in his conscience. I will do what you ask, but for nothing." If grandpapa was getting tired of walking up and down in the Square, the sisters of Mechinet found time pass still more slowly in their workroom. They asked each other, "What can Miss Dionysia have to say to brother?"
One of the judges entered, who, after having bowed very civilly, asked the clerk a number of questions about a case which was to come on the same day. "Good-bye, M. Mechinet," said the young advocate. And his next visit was to Dr. Seignebos. When he rang the bell, a servant came to the door, and said,
He was fully prepared to carry out his plan. Immediately after his return, he communicated the papers of the prosecution to the defence, and directed his clerk to show himself as obliging as he could. M. Mechinet was not a little surprised at these orders. He knew his master thoroughly, this magistrate, whose shadow he had been now for so many years.
"You are afraid, dear sir," he had said to himself. And as M. Galpin repeated the injunction, adding that the honor of justice required the utmost courtesy when rigor was not to be employed, the old clerk replied very gravely, "Oh! be reassured, sir. I shall not be wanting in courtesy." But, as soon as the magistrate turned his back, Mechinet laughed aloud.
And Mechinet made him all kinds of signs. The usher who had brought him in had actually to take him out. Immediately the commonwealth attorney turned again to the servant-girl and said, "Now, my good girl, can you tell me if any thing special happened in connection with this gentleman's visit at your house?" "There was a great quarrel between him and master and mistress." "Were you present?" "No.
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