the Count de Tremorel,
will you not?" she asked.
M. Lecoq was delighted; he had looked for this request, and
expected it.
"Five minutes? Yes," he replied. "But abandon all hope, Madame,
of saving the prisoner; the house is watched; if you look in the
court and in the street you will see my men in ambuscade. Besides,
I am going to stay here in the next room."
The count was heard ascending the stairs.
"There's Hector!" cried Laurence, "quick, quick! conceal yourselves!"
She added, as they were retiring, in a low tone, but not so low as
to prevent the detective from hearing her:
"Be sure, we will not try to escape."
She let the door-curtain drop; it was time. Hector entered. He
was paler than death, and his eyes had a fearful, wandering
expression.
"We are lost!" said he, "they are pursuing us. See, this letter
which I received just now is not from the man whose signature it
professes to bear; he told me so himself. Come, let us go, let
us leave this house--"
Laurence overwhelmed him with a look full of hate and contempt,
and said:
"It is too late."
Her countenance and voice were so strange that Tremorel, despite
his distress, was struck by it, and asked:
"What is the matter?"
"Everything is known; it is known that you killed your wife."
"It's false!"
She shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, then, it is true," he added, "for I loved you so--"
"Really! And it was for love of me that you poisoned Sauvresy?"
He saw that he was discovered, that he had been caught in a trap,
that they had come, in his absence, and told Laurence all. He did
not attempt to deny anything.
"What shall I do?" cried he, "what shall I do?"
Laurence drew him to her, and muttered in a shuddering voice:
"Save the name of Tremorel; there are pistols here."
He recoiled, as if he had seen death itself.
"No," said he. "I can yet fly and conceal myself; I will go alone,
and you can rejoin me afterward."
"I have already told you that it is too late. The police have
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John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.