The Son Of Monte Cristo Part 16 (1/2)
”Long enough to earn a few louis?”
”What do you want done?”
”I will tell you If you hate this Gudel I will give you an opportunity to pay off your score, and I will pay you at the saht I am in no hurry I can wait an hour or two”
The round
Robeccal put his foot upon it During this brief colloquy the two ed away, indifferent to all appearance, and Robeccal picked up the gold and disappeared in a different direction
Meanwhile, Gudel was talking in a low voice to his apparently new acquaintances Schwann had returned to his saucepans
”Well?” said the soldier, leaning over his glass as if to srain ell sown--the harvest waits”
”We will talk elsewhere Did you notice that felloho sat reading over there in the corner?”
”Yes--a bad face A lacquey, I think”
”A lacquey or a spy Look out for hiht, after the representation, in my room or yours”
”In yours, then We ait until the house is quiet Leave your door open And now, be careful that no one suspects our presence here!”
”What! not even Fanfar? You need not distrust hiood, brave, and devoted to you”
”We will talk of that later on” In a louder voice he said: ”Then, coo with you to Remisemont to-morrow”
Gudel nodded, then called Fanfar
”To work, my lad,” he cried ”We e Schwann, where ishis hands, and from under a pile of plates he drew out a paper
”Fanfar, sign it for me, your hand is better than mine, for the truth is I never learned to write And now this is done, we reat pleasure in store for them”
CHAPTER XIV
TWO PLACES, S V P
In five minutes all the population of Saint Aes a the erection of an enore pictures
An enormous handbill with letters that could be read a hundred feet off, boreinscriptions At the top was Iron Jaho held enoreons, or any other fowl that was most convenient The wonderful Almanzor (that was Robeccal,) a descendant of the Moors of Spain, crushed glass with his teeth and sords Then there was Caillette, the rope-dancer, who charhtness And lastly, in letters of the sath as those which Gudel used for himself, came Fanfar's name
”FANFAR! FANFAR! FANFAR!