Part 35 (2/2)
”Oh! there, certainly.”
”Have you seen them?”
”I haven't; but some folks have.”
”Has your comrade?” asked the young officer, turning to the second peasant.
”I haven't seen them; but I did see flames, and Claude Philippon heard chains.”
”Ah! so they have flames and chains?” said Roland.
”Yes,” replied the first peasant, ”for I have seen the flames myself.”
”And Claude Philippon on heard the chains,” repeated the other.
”Very good, my friends, very good,” replied Roland, sneering; ”so you won't go there to-night at any price?”
”Not at any price.”
”Not for all the gold in the world.”
”And you'll go to-morrow when it's light?”
”Oh! Monsieur Louis, before you're up the boar will be here.”
”Before you're up,” said Echo.
”All right,” said Roland. ”Come back to me the day after tomorrow.”
”Willingly, Monsieur Louis. What do you want us to do?”
”Never mind; just come.”
”Oh! we'll come.”
”That means that the moment you say, 'Come,' you can count upon us, Monsieur Louis.”
”Well, then I'll have some information for you.”
”What about?”
”The ghosts.”
Amelie gave a stifled cry; Madame de Montrevel alone heard it. Louis dismissed the two peasants, and they jostled each other at the door in their efforts to go through together.
Nothing more was said that evening about the Chartreuse or the pavilion, nor of its supernatural tenants, spectres or phantoms who haunted them.
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