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There was a pause. Morhange was calmly fingering the orichalch ring. "You know what our fate is to be?" "I know. Le Mesge explained it to us yesterday in polite mythological terms. This evidently is an extraordinary adventure." He was silent, then said, looking at me: "I am very sorry to have dragged you here.
I will explain everything.... But now you see that we must hurry. It is time for lunch and our fellow diners will get tired of waiting." "Our fellow diners?" "There are two of them," M. Le Mesge explained. "We three constitute the European personnel of the house, that is, the fixed personnel," he seemed to feel obliged to add, with his disquieting smile.
I had scarcely finished one of these beautiful iced fruits, when M. Le Mesge rose. "Gentlemen, if you are ready," he said to Morhange and me. "Get away from that old dotard as soon as you can," whispered the Hetman of Jitomir to me. "The party of Trente et Quarante will begin soon. You shall see. You shall see. We go it even harder than at Cora Pearl's."
Nevertheless, when I had taken leave of M. Le Mesge, I felt the need of waiting a few minutes before executing my decision. First I wandered through the corridors; then, finding myself near my room, I went to it. It was still intolerably hot. I sat down on my divan and began to think. The dagger in my pocket bothered me. I took it out and laid it on the floor.
"I can," I said very calmly. He took a large white card from a box which contained several and dipped his pen. "Number 54 ... Captain?" "Captain Jean-Marie-François Morhange." While I dictated, one hand resting on the table, I noticed on my cuff a stain, a little stain, reddish brown. "Morhange," repeated M. Le Mesge, finishing the lettering of my friend's name. "Born at...?" "Villefranche."
He bowed and touched me lightly on the shoulder. "Follow him," said M. Le Mesge. Without a word, I obeyed. My guide and I passed along another long corridor. My excitement increased. I was impatient for one thing only, to come face to face with that woman, to tell her.... So far as anything else was concerned, I already was done for.
Bending again, I satisfied myself that this metal was the same as that with which the walls of the library were overcast. "It is orichalch," continued M. Le Mesge. "You look as if you had no idea how a human body can look like a statue of orichalch. Come, Captain Morhange, you whom I gave credit for a certain amount of knowledge, have you never heard of the method of Dr.
Their smoke mounted toward the vault, invisible in the darkness, but their perfume, combined with the coolness and sound of the water, banished from the soul all other desire than to remain there forever. M. Le Mesge made us sit down in the center of the hall, on the Cyclopean seats. He seated himself between us. "In a few minutes," he said, "your eyes will grow accustomed to the obscurity."
The fountain again made itself heard in the midst of the shadow. My pulses beat, my head seemed on fire. A fever was consuming me. "And all of them," I cried, regardless of the place, "all of them complied! They submitted! Well, she has only to come and she will see what will happen." Morhange was silent. "My dear sir," said M. Le Mesge in a very gentle voice, "you are speaking like a child.
For reasons which some day, perhaps, I shall have occasion to explain to you, I would like to have proof of that relationship." "We need not wait for that, sir," said M. Le Mesge. Then, in my turn, I advanced. "Two words, if you please, sir," I said brutally. "I will not hide from you that these historical discussions seem to me absolutely out of place.
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