Volume II Part 33 (1/2)
”Oh, the door opens now, and Jacques enters! Welcome, my dear child How handsoain!”
”Has she really found Jacques again?” asked Labarre, tre?”
”Yes, he is the same person as Fanfaro”
”God be praised And Louison?”
”Louison has been abducted and--”
”Abducted? By whom?”
”By the Vicomte of Talizac”
”By Talizac? O my God!” stammered Labarre, in horror
Louise, too, had heard the na herself with difficulty, she whispered:
”Talizac? He must know it! Jacques--the box, O God! where is the box?”
How did these tooutte?
When Fanfaro went to search for Louison, his mother had remained behind under the protection of Caillette The day passed, night came, but neither Fanfaro, Girdel nor Bobi+chel returned The maniac screamed and cried She wanted to see Jacques, and Caillette could hardly calht she fell into a slumber, and Caillette, too, exhausted by the excitement of the last few hours, closed her eyes
When she awoke it was daylight She glanced at the maniac's bed
Merciful Heaven, it was e with fear, Caillette hurried downstairs and asked the janitress whether she had seen anything of the ”Burned Woman” The janitress looked at her in aht at once when she saw the old crippled wo down the stairs two hours before that all was not right in her head
”But she cannot walk at all, how could she get out?” groaned Caillette
”Suppose Fanfaro caon stopped in front of the door,” said the janitress, ”and the driver let the old woed beforehand and was all right”
Caillette wrung her hands and then hurried to the station house and announced the disappearance of the ”Burned Woman”
If her father and Bobi+chel, even Fanfaro, had come, she would have felt at ease But no one showed himself, and Caillette, who knew that Girdel and Fanfaro anted, did not dare to make any inquiries
She ran about in desperation The only cleas the milkman, but where could she find him? Caillette passed hours of dreadful anxiety, and when a ragpicker told her that he saoman who answered her description pass the Barriere d'Italie on a er of God