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Updated: June 19, 2025
Can't you see that Natacha's presence in the datcha had become quite too dangerous for that charming young girl after the poisoning of her father and step-mother failed and at the moment when her comrades were preparing to send General Trebassof a pleasant little gift of dynamite? She arranged to get away and yet to appear kidnapped. It is too simple." Rouletabille raised his head.
There did not seem to be a soul about, and that was the conclusion the men in the canoe who stood up looking around, seemed to reach. They jumped out, and then it was Natacha's turn. She accepted the hand held out to her, talking pleasantly with the men all the time. She even turned to press the hand of one of them. The group came up across the beach.
Near by, standing back of Natacha's seat, was a figure not unknown to the young reporter, and there, in one of the orchestra chairs, were two other men whose faces he had seen that same morning in Koupriane's barracks. Here was where a memory for faces stood him in good stead. I hurried to the police commissioner. He explained the affair promptly, and I was quick to understand.
The orderlies left without my seeing when they went." "Ah," interrupted Rouletabille, "before she arrives, give me all her hat-pins." "What!" "I say, all her hat-pins. Quickly!" Matrena ran to Natacha's chamber and returned with three enormous hat-pins with beautifully-cut stones in them. "These are all?" "They are all I have found. I know she has two others.
The first light of dawn filtered through the blinds. He was able to make out that the only closed door was the one to Natacha's chamber. He stopped before that door, his heart beating, and listened. But no sound came to his ear. He had glided so lightly over the carpet that he was sure he had not been heard. Perhaps that door would open. He waited. In vain.
Then Matrena pointed her finger at Natacha's chamber. "You have not gone in there?" she inquired. He replied, "It is not necessary to enter there." "I will enter there, myself, nevertheless," said she, and she set her teeth. He barred her way with his arms spread out. "If you hold the life of someone dear," said he, "don't go a step farther." "But the person is in that chamber.
Ermolai conducted his mistress to the drawing-room and pointed across to a door that he had left open, which led to the sitting-room before Natacha's chamber. "He is there," said Ermolai in a low voice.
These papers, Sire, that you have shown me, and which show, if nothing more, an understanding between Natacha and the revolutionaries, could only have been in the possession of Michael or of Natacha. Nothing was found in Michael's quarters. Tell me, then, that Matrena found them in Natacha's apartment. Then, she did not hesitate!"
The conversation turned on the devotion of Matrena Petrovna, which they placed above the finest heroic traits in the women of antiquity, and also on Natacha's love for her father. Rouletabille made them talk.
Very well, then, I am going to say this to you: 'If I ward off this blow if, after having been the unintentional cause of Natacha's arrest, I have the daughter of General Trebassof set at liberty, and that within twenty-four hours, what do you say? Would you still hang me?"
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