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She was thinking, that, if the answer was favorable, ere twenty-four hours had gone by, she would see Jacques; and she kept saying to herself, "If only Mechinet is punctual!" He was so. At ten o'clock precisely, he pushed open the little gate, just as the night before, and said at once, "It is all right!" Dionysia was so terribly excited, that she had to lean against a tree.
Although he lived more retired than ever, since this case had begun, many a report reached him from the Chandore family. To be sure, he was a thousand miles from imagining that they had actually opened communications with the prisoner, and, what is more, that this intercourse was carried on by Mechinet, his own clerk.
And, in spite of the signs which M. Galpin made, he continued, "Unfortunately that has nothing to do with the force of the evidence against you. If you persist in keeping silence, you must look for a criminal trial for the galleys. If you are innocent, why not explain the matter? What do you wait for? What do you hope?" "Nothing." Mechinet had, in the meantime, completed the official report.
"And M. de Boiscoran has a copy of Cooper's novels in his prison?" asked M. Folgat. "Yes, sir. M. Mechinet told me so. As soon as Jacques found he was to be kept in close confinement, he asked for some of Cooper's novels, and M. Galpin, who is so cunning, so smart, and so suspicious, went himself and got them for him. Jacques was counting upon me."
But the next day she insisted upon being taken to her seamstresses, and finding Mechinet, the clerk, there, she remained a full half-hour in conference with him. Then, in the evening, when Dr. Seignebos, after a short visit, was leaving the room, she lay in wait for him, and kept him talking a long time at the door. Finally, the day after, she asked once more to be allowed to go and see Jacques.
I had to hand it, as is my duty, to M. Galpin, when he came accompanied by his clerk, Mechinet, to examine M. de Boiscoran." "And what did he say?" "He opened the letter, read it, put it into his pocket, and said, 'Well." Tears of anger this time sprang from Dionysia's eyes; and she cried, "What a shame? This man reads a letter written by Jacques to me! That is infamous!"
The interruption caused by his sisters had had the good effect of restoring to Mechinet a good portion of his habitual self-possession. He said, "I hope no harm will come of it; and yet I cannot conceal from you, madam, that the service which I am going to try to render you presents more difficulties than I thought." "Great God!" murmured Dionysia.
The magistrate and the commonwealth attorney were waiting for them with the greatest impatience. As soon as they came into the small room of the clerk's office, M. Daubigeon cried, "Well, I suppose Mechinet has told you all?" "Yes," replied M. Folgat; "but we have some information of which you have heard as yet nothing."
"Poor countess!" murmured one of them. "Here is her husband dead, and they say one of her daughters is dying at home." But M. Daubigeon, the magistrate, and Mechinet were too preoccupied with their own interests to think of stopping for more reliable news. The way was open: they went in, and hastened to the clerk's office, where the gendarmes had taken Trumence, and now were guarding him.
Put your legs into active motion, my dear Mechinet, and run and ask M. Folgat to come here. I will wait for him here." When Dionysia, after leaving the Countess Claudieuse, came back to Jacques's parents and his friends, she said, radiant with hope, "Now victory is on our side!"
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