Belle-Rose — page 72: what you’re looking at

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r eh / A HOUSE IN THE RUE CASSETTE. oS et will return to the Rue Cassette, and you will hand to the same person a second letter—this one.’’ ‘“The one which is larger than the first and smaller than the third?’’ ‘Precisely. You will wait three days longer. At the end of these three days, if you have seen neither valet nor note, you will take the last letter and carry it as you did the other two.’’ 7 , ‘And I will again ask for Mademoiselle Camille or Mon- sieur Cyprien, her brother?”’’ ‘Yes, only this time you will add upon the envelope these words: ‘I leave in twenty-four hours.’ ”’ ‘*And shall I really leave?’’ ‘‘Uniless you prefer to stay in Paris.” ‘Then I shall leave.’’ | ge ‘I do not think so. Certainly some one will come after the third letter, if not before.’”’ ‘‘Mademoiselle Camille or Monsieur Cyprien?”’ “One or the other, or perhaps both,’’ said Monsieur d’Assonville, with a singular smile. ‘‘You will follow them and do everything they tell you.”’ . : ‘‘But how shall I recognize them?’’ ‘‘By these words which Mademoiselle Camille’ will pro- -nounce on accosting you: ‘The Castilian is waiting.’ Per- — haps you will be informed by a note where these words will be found. This note will indicate to you a rendezvous, and you will gotoit. There is no danger, only—take a poniard.”’ — 3 i dO aa the ‘You will take care to always have the right arm free and ready to act.”’ | “Ah! ah!”’ “Oh, ’tis a simple precaution. When you shall have ar- | rived at the place indicated and spoken to the person to whom I send you, you will repeat: to me all that you have seen and heard at once and without a moment's loss of time. ”’ | ‘Ts that all?”’ | “Tt is all. Leave now, and may God guide you and:aid you.”’ Just as Belle-Rose was mounting his horse, Monsieur d’Assonville embraced him: ‘“Whether I live or die,’’ he said to him, “I have your word; I count upon your silence. ”’ _ Belle-Rose placed the three letters in his doublet, and took his departure. ‘The agitation of his body calmed the ————_ Gomicbooks (Elo) —