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The Conspirators
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"And how, on the contrary, do you know that she will not deceive Richelieu for me?"
"Hey-day! and will she manage your police and your love at the same time?"
"Perhaps. But apropos of police," answered Dubois, continuing to undress, "do you know that yours have slept infernally during three or four months, and that if this continues I shall be obliged to withdraw you from the superintendence?"
"Ah! diable!" cried La Fillon; "this is the way you treat your old friends. I come to make a revelation; well, you shall not know it."
"A revelation! and what about?"
"Pshaw! take away my superintendence; scoundrel that you are."
"Is it relating to Spain?" asked the archbishop, frowning, and feeling instinctively that the danger came from thence.
"It relates to nothing at all. Good-evening."
And La Fillon made toward the door.
"Come here," said Dubois, stepping toward his desk; and the two old friends, who understood each other so well, looked toward each other and laughed.
"Come, come," said La Fillon, "I see that all is not lost, and that there is yet some good in you. Come, open this little desk and show me what it contains, and I will open my mouth and show you what I have in my heart."
Dubois took out a rouleau of a hundred louis, and showed it to La Fillon.
"How much is it?" said she; "come, tell the truth; however, I shall count after you, to be sure."
"Two thousand four hundred francs; that is a pretty penny, it seems to me."
"Yes, for an abbe, but not for an archbishop."
"Do you not know to what an extent the finances are involved?"
"Well, what does that matter, you humbug, when Law is going to make millions for us?"
"Would you like in exchange ten thousand francs in Mississippi bonds?"
"Thanks, my dear, I prefer the hundred louis; give them to me; I am a good woman, and another day you will be more generous."
"Well, what have you to tell me? Come." – "First promise me one thing."
"What is it?"
"That as it is about an old friend, he shall come to no harm."
"But if your old friend is a beggar who deserves to be hanged, why should you cheat him of his due?"
"I have my own reasons."
"Go along; I promise nothing."
"Well, good-evening then. Here are the hundred louis."
"Ah! you are getting scrupulous all at once."
"Not at all; but I am under obligations to this man; he started me in the world."
"He may boast of having done a good thing for society that day."
"Rather, my friend; and he shall never have cause to repent it, for I will not speak a word to-day unless his life is safe."
"Well, safe it shall be, I promise you; are you content?"
"By what do you promise it me?"
"On the faith of an honest man."
"Ah! you are going to deceive me."
"Do you know that you are very tiresome?"
"Oh! I am very tiresome. Well, good-by."
"Gossip, I will have you arrested."
"What do I care?"
"You shall be sent to prison."
"That is a good joke."
"I will leave you to die there."
"Till you do it yourself. It will not be long."
"Well, what do you want?"
"My captain's life."
"You shall have it."
"On what faith?"
"On the faith of an archbishop."
"I want a better."
"On the faith of an abbe."
"Better still."
"Hey-day! and will she manage your police and your love at the same time?"
"Perhaps. But apropos of police," answered Dubois, continuing to undress, "do you know that yours have slept infernally during three or four months, and that if this continues I shall be obliged to withdraw you from the superintendence?"
"Ah! diable!" cried La Fillon; "this is the way you treat your old friends. I come to make a revelation; well, you shall not know it."
"A revelation! and what about?"
"Pshaw! take away my superintendence; scoundrel that you are."
"Is it relating to Spain?" asked the archbishop, frowning, and feeling instinctively that the danger came from thence.
"It relates to nothing at all. Good-evening."
And La Fillon made toward the door.
"Come here," said Dubois, stepping toward his desk; and the two old friends, who understood each other so well, looked toward each other and laughed.
"Come, come," said La Fillon, "I see that all is not lost, and that there is yet some good in you. Come, open this little desk and show me what it contains, and I will open my mouth and show you what I have in my heart."
Dubois took out a rouleau of a hundred louis, and showed it to La Fillon.
"How much is it?" said she; "come, tell the truth; however, I shall count after you, to be sure."
"Two thousand four hundred francs; that is a pretty penny, it seems to me."
"Yes, for an abbe, but not for an archbishop."
"Do you not know to what an extent the finances are involved?"
"Well, what does that matter, you humbug, when Law is going to make millions for us?"
"Would you like in exchange ten thousand francs in Mississippi bonds?"
"Thanks, my dear, I prefer the hundred louis; give them to me; I am a good woman, and another day you will be more generous."
"Well, what have you to tell me? Come." – "First promise me one thing."
"What is it?"
"That as it is about an old friend, he shall come to no harm."
"But if your old friend is a beggar who deserves to be hanged, why should you cheat him of his due?"
"I have my own reasons."
"Go along; I promise nothing."
"Well, good-evening then. Here are the hundred louis."
"Ah! you are getting scrupulous all at once."
"Not at all; but I am under obligations to this man; he started me in the world."
"He may boast of having done a good thing for society that day."
"Rather, my friend; and he shall never have cause to repent it, for I will not speak a word to-day unless his life is safe."
"Well, safe it shall be, I promise you; are you content?"
"By what do you promise it me?"
"On the faith of an honest man."
"Ah! you are going to deceive me."
"Do you know that you are very tiresome?"
"Oh! I am very tiresome. Well, good-by."
"Gossip, I will have you arrested."
"What do I care?"
"You shall be sent to prison."
"That is a good joke."
"I will leave you to die there."
"Till you do it yourself. It will not be long."
"Well, what do you want?"
"My captain's life."
"You shall have it."
"On what faith?"
"On the faith of an archbishop."
"I want a better."
"On the faith of an abbe."
"Better still."
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