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"If it had only been the police, our own police, we should not have minded, Monsieur le Senateur we are honest people we have nothing to fear from the police," she lifted her head proudly. "But when it came to that impudent young man " For a moment the Senator was at a loss then he suddenly remembered: "You mean the gentleman attached to the British Consulate?" he said uncomfortably.
But even Monsieur Beaucourt failed to elicit the fact that Senator Burton's acquaintance with Mrs. Dampier was of such short standing. He assumed that she was a friend of the Burton family, and the Senator allowed the assumption to go by default. "The story you have told me," the Prefect said at last, "is a very curious story, Monsieur le Senateur.
I want to assure you how entirely I have always believed your statement concerning this strange business." "If that is so then why all this this trouble, Monsieur le Senateur?" Husband and wife spoke simultaneously. "I wonder," exclaimed the Senator, "that you can ask me such a question!
Why should this poor girl she looked even younger than his daughter pretend that she had come here accompanied, if, after all, she had not done so? Madame Poulain was still looking at them fixedly, and there was no very pleasant expression on her face. "Well," she said at last, "that comes of being too good-natured, Monsieur le Senateur. I never heard of such a thing!
The hotel-keeper and his wife by now had changed their tone; they were quite respectful, even sympathetic: "Of course it is possible," observed Madame Poulain hesitatingly, "that this young lady, as you yourself suggested this morning, Monsieur le Senateur, is suffering from loss of memory, and that she has imagined her arrival here with this artist gentleman.
The American was also surprised to see the eagerness with which the Poulains had welcomed his presence at their unpleasant ordeal. "Thank you for coming, Monsieur Gerald; but where is Monsieur le Senateur?" asked Madame Poulain feverishly. "He promised he absolutely promised us that he would be here this morning!"
He had not finished speaking when the door opened and Senateur saw before him a fat girl, with a very red, blowzy face, with drooping breasts, a big stomach and broad hips, a sort of animal, the wife of the shepherd Severin, and he went into the cottage. "I have come to pay you a visit, as I want to make a little search," he said, and he looked about him.
They had been standing close against the wall, so as not to be seen from within, and they waited. As nobody answered, the brigadier knocked again in a minute or two. It was so quiet that the house seemed uninhabited; but Lenient, the gendarme, who had very quick ears, said that he heard somebody moving about inside, and then Senateur got angry.
With startling suddenness, a panel disappeared noiselessly into the red velvet draped wall, and in the aperture so formed a good-looking young man stood smiling. "My secretary, Monsieur le Senateur my secretary, who is also my nephew." The Senator rose and bowed. "Andre? Please say that I am not to be disturbed till this gentleman's visit is concluded."
It was so quiet, that the house seemed uninhabited; but Lenient, the gendarme, who had very quick ears, said that he heard somebody moving about inside, and then Sénateur got angry. He would not allow anyone to resist the authority of the law for a moment, and, knocking at the door with the hilt of his sword, he cried out: "Open the door, in the name of the law."
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