Part 5 (1/2)
”No; what did you say when you couldn't find me?”
”My dear fellow, I reflected”
”Ah, indeed; you reflect, do you? Well, and what did that reflection lead to?”
”It led uess the whole truth”
”Couess after all?” said Porthos, settling hi the airs of a sphinx
”I guessed, in the first place, that you were fortifying Belle-Isle”
”There was no great difficulty in that, for you sawelse,--that you were fortifying Belle-Isle by M Fouquet's orders”
”That's true”
”But even that is not all Whenever I feel , I do not stop on uessed that M Fouquet wished to preserve thethese fortifications”
”I believe that was his intention, in fact,” said Porthos
”Yes, but do you knohy he wished to keep it secret?”
”In order it should not become known, perhaps,” said Porthos
”That was his principal reason But his as subservient to a bit of generosity--”
”In fact,” said Porthos, ”I have heard it said that M Fouquet was a very generous enerosity he wished to exhibit towards the king”
”Oh, oh!”
”You seeuess?”
”No”
”Well, I know it, then”
”You are a wizard”
”Not at all, I assure you”
”How do you know it, then?”
”By a very si”