. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . he aloud. You haveasked my advice, I shall require the night for reflection. Atpresent my brain is whirling; I must go into the air. If I goto bed now, I am sure to have a horrible nightmare. Come,my boy; patience and courage. Who knows whether at thisvery hour Providence is not working for you? THE LEROUGE AEFAIR 703 He went out, and Xoel, leaving his door open, listened to thesound of his footsteps as he descended the stairs. Almost im-mediately the cry of, Open, if you please, and the bangingof the door apprised him that M. Tabaret had gone out. He
. Monsieur Lecoq & The honor of the name . he aloud. You haveasked my advice, I shall require the night for reflection. Atpresent my brain is whirling; I must go into the air. If I goto bed now, I am sure to have a horrible nightmare. Come,my boy; patience and courage. Who knows whether at thisvery hour Providence is not working for you? THE LEROUGE AEFAIR 703 He went out, and Xoel, leaving his door open, listened to thesound of his footsteps as he descended the stairs. Almost im-mediately the cry of, Open, if you please, and the bangingof the door apprised him that M. Tabaret had gone out. Hewaited a few minutes and refilled his lamp. Then he took asmall packet from one of his bureau drawers, slipped into hispocket the bank-notes lent him by his old friend, and left hisstudy, the door of which he double-locked. On reaching thelanding, he paused. He listened intently, as though the soundof Madame Gerdys moans could reach him where he nothing, he descended the stairs on tiptoe. A minutelater, he was in the INCLUDED in Madame Gerdys lease was a coach-house,•*• which was used by her as a lumber room. Here were heapedtogether all the old rubbish of the household, broken pieces offurniture, utensils past service, articles become useless or cum-brous. It was also used to store the provision of wood andcoal for the winter. This old coach-house had a small dooropening on the street, which had been in disuse for manyyears; but which Noel had had secretly repaired and providedwith a lock. He could thus enter or leave the house at anyhour without the concierge or any one else knowing. It was bythis door that the barrister went out, though not without usingthe utmost caution in opening and closing it. Once in thestreet, he stood still a moment, as if hesitating which way togo. Then, he slowly proceeded in the direction of the railway station, where a cab happening to pass, hehailed it. Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, at the corner of theRue de P
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