We have lacked proper leadership throughout,
and now - as I have said already - there is an end to us. It but
remains to escape, as soon as we can discover how the thing is to
be accomplished."
Madame told him of the hopes that she had centred upon Rougane.
It lifted him out of his gloom. He was disposed to be optimistic.
"You are wrong to have abandoned that hope," he assured her. "If
this mayor is so well disposed, he certainly can do as his son
promised. But last night it would have been too late for him to
have reached you, and to-day, assuming that he had come to Paris,
almost impossible for him to win across the streets from the other
side. It is most likely that he will yet come. I pray that he may;
for the knowledge that you and Mlle. de Kercadiou are out of this
would comfort me above all."
"We should take you with us," said madame.
"Ah! But how?"
"Young Rougane was to bring me permits for three persons - Aline,
myself, and my footman, Jacques. You would take the place of Jacques."
"Faith, to get out of Paris, madame, there is no man whose place I
would not take.
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