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He affectionately thanked M. Colbert, and from that day forward gave him his entire consideration and esteem. M. Colbert was diligent enough to seize upon the millions hidden at Vincennes, the millions secreted in the old Louvre, at Courbevoie and the other country seats.
"I, for one, desire nothing better than permission to talk to Mademoiselle," said Müller, gallantly. "Mais, Monsieur..." "Mademoiselle, with Madame her aunt, are going to the fête at Courbevoie?" "Yes, Monsieur." "The river is very pretty thereabouts, and the walks through the meadows are delightful." "Indeed, Monsieur!" "Mademoiselle does not know the place?" "No, Monsieur."
"Ah, if I might only be permitted to act as guide! I know every foot of the ground about Courbevoie." Mademoiselle Marie blushed again, looked down, and made no reply. "I am a painter," continued Müller; "and I have sketched all the windings of the Seine from Neuilly to St. Germains. My friend here is English he is a student of medicine, and speaks excellent French."
The disjointed masses of Communists wind out on April 3d of the terrible year of '71, to storm the fortified heights held by the Nationalists. Only a day before, at Courbevoie, their bayonets have crossed in fight. Mont Valerien now showers shells into Paris.
"Listen to me, Yvonne," he said. "You are acquainted with the Englishman's plans, are you not?" "Of course," she replied simply. "He has had to trust me." "Then you know that at sundown this afternoon I and the three others are to leave for Courbevoie on foot, where we are to obtain what horses we can whilst awaiting the chief."
It contained a few hastily scrawled words, and by the feeble light of the fast-dying candle Roger spelt them out laboriously: "If the finder of these clothes will take them to the cross-roads opposite the foot-bridge which leads straight to Courbevoie, and will do so before the clock of Courbevoie Church has struck the hour of midnight, he will be rewarded with the sum of five hundred francs."
Brémond and Monciel were to renew their efforts to insure the King's departure by the Assembly and to make assurance doubly sure in that quarter; while as for Calvert, he was to sound Bachman, gain his allegiance to the King's cause, and engage him to detain his Swiss Guard at Courbevoie to aid the King's flight should it be necessary.
The examining magistrate, having ascertained from a medical report that such a separation would not be hurtful to the patient, ordered the widow to be sent back to Paris, and the family of M. de Saint Pierre to take her place. The change was made on March 6. On leaving Courbevoie the widow was taken to the office of Mace.
"We got him out of Paris early this morning in a coal cart, carefully hidden among the sacks. When he emerged he was black but safe. I drove the cart myself as far as Courbevoie, and there handed over your Pierre and those whom we got out of Paris with him to those of my friends who were going straight to England.
An intimate friend, named Bourdelin, relates how one day during the siege of Paris, the pair found themselves by the Courbevoie bridge. One side of this bridge was guarded by French gendarmes, the other by German officers, Prussians, Saxons, Bavarians, a dozen in all. For a quarter of an hour the two Frenchmen lingered, Dore intently gazing on the group opposite.
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