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Updated: June 10, 2025
Come and see me: I will put you into the way of business. Au revoir, Prince." And without giving Serge time to answer him, Herzog reached the boudoir where his daughter was waiting with impatience. Behind him came the Prince looking rather troubled. The financier's words had awakened importunate ideas in his mind.
"The funniest thing to me is Marechal taking a holiday," observed Savinien. "They are still at dinner," he added, entering the drawing- room, through the great doors of which sounds of voices and rattling of plates were heard. "Well, let us wait for them; we are in agreeable company," said Herzog, turning toward Marechal, who only answered by a cold bow.
A solid battery of capitalist papers, legal lights, private detectives and other means particularly including the majority of the priests and clergy swamped the man and damned him and doomed him from the first word of the trial. Money flowed in floods. Perjury overran the banks of the River of Corruption. Herzog branded the man a thief and fire-eater.
The mistress gave him a look that terrified him, and answered: "I am going to square accounts with the Prince." And, passing through the door leading to the little staircase, Madame Desvarennes went up to her son-in-law's rooms. On leaving Herzog, Serge had turned his steps toward the Rue Saint-Dominique.
The intensity of the feelings were increased a hundredfold, owing to the importance of the sums risked. It was really a splendid sight to see Herzog manipulating matters, maneuvering with a miraculous dexterity millions of francs. And then the field for operations was large.
Immediately on discovering his loss which was soon after having reached his office Flint, in something like a fright, telephoned down to the Oakwood Heights laboratory and instructed Herzog, in person, to make a careful search for it and to report results inside an hour.
It was a terrible sight, and one that Pierre could not forget. But Herzog, with his cajoling sweetness, protested against this exaggerated picture. Delarue had arrived during the dog-days a bad time. And then, it was necessary for the work to be carried on without delay. Besides, a few Moors, more or less what did it matter? Negroes, all but monkeys!
A fight, even then, was perilously near, but Armstrong averted it by turning away. "I'm done." he repeated. He gathered up a few tools that belonged to him, personally, gave one look at his comrades, waved a hand at them, and then, followed by Herzog, strode off down the long aisle, toward the door. "Herzog," said he, calmly and with cold emphasis, "listen to this." "Get out!
Pierre and Marechal had come nearer, and Madame Desvarennes, profiting by this mingling of groups, introduced the men to each other. On hearing the name of Pierre Delarue, Herzog looked thoughtful, and asked if the young man was the renowned engineer whose works on the coast of Africa had caused so much talk in Europe?
Serge was weighing the question. Herzog was happy; he had shown himself to all Paris in company with Madame Desvarennes's son-in-law. He had already realized one of his projects. The carriage was just passing down the Champs Elysees. The weather was lovely, and in the distance could be seen the trees of the Tuileries and the different monuments of the Place de la Concorde bathed in blue mist.
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