. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . d me. wrap myself Dp in a largecloak, and accompany you to the citadel. You will send forCorporal B have ine alone with him in a quiet place; and 1 will explain our wishes to him. 448 THE HONOR OF THE NAME The Due de Sairmeuse shrugged his shoulders. And howwill you procure a hundred feet of rope at this hour in Mon-taignac? Will you go about from shop to shop? You mightas well trumpet your project all over France at once. I shall attempt nothing of the kind. What I cant do, thefriends of the DEscorval family will do. Then seeing thatthe duke was abou
. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . d me. wrap myself Dp in a largecloak, and accompany you to the citadel. You will send forCorporal B have ine alone with him in a quiet place; and 1 will explain our wishes to him. 448 THE HONOR OF THE NAME The Due de Sairmeuse shrugged his shoulders. And howwill you procure a hundred feet of rope at this hour in Mon-taignac? Will you go about from shop to shop? You mightas well trumpet your project all over France at once. I shall attempt nothing of the kind. What I cant do, thefriends of the DEscorval family will do. Then seeing thatthe duke was about to offer some fresh objections, Martialearnestly added: Pray dont forget the danger that threatensus, nor the little time that is left us. I have made a blunder,let me repair it. And turning to Marie-Anne: You mayconsider the baron saved, he pursued; but it is necessary forme to confer with one of his friends. Return at once to theHotel de France and tell the cure to meet me on the PlacedArmes, where I shall go at once and wait for DIRECTLY the Baron dEscorval was arrested, althoughhe was unarmed and although he had taken no part in theinsurrection, he fully realized the fact that he was a lost knew how hateful he was to the royalist party, and havingmade up his mind that he would have to die, he turned all hisattention to the danger threatening his son. The unfortunateblunder he made in contradicting Chupins evidence was dueto his preoccupation, and he did not breathe freely until hesaw Maurice led from the hall by the Abbe Midon and thefriendly officers; for he feared that his son would be unable torestrain himself, that he would declare his guilt all to no purposesince the commission in its blind hate would never forgive thefather, but rather satisfy its rancor by ordering the execution ofthe son as well. When Maurice was eventually got away, thebaron became more composed, and with head erect, and stead-fast eye, he listened to his sentence. In the confusion t
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