Then I advised him to send
the servant off out of the way on the wedding-day. He thought a
moment, and said that my advice was good. He added that he had
found a means of doing this; on the evening of the marriage he
would send the man on an errand for me, telling him that the affair
was to be concealed from the countess. I was to dress up--as a
chambermaid, and wait for the man at the cafe in the Place du
Chatelet, between half-past nine and ten that evening; I was to sit
at the table nearest the entrance on the right, with a bouquet in
my hand, so that he should recognize me. He would come in and give
me a package; then I was to ask him to take something, and so get
him tipsy if possible, and then walk about Paris with him till
morning."
Jenny expressed herself with difficulty, hesitating, choosing her
words, and trying to remember exactly what Tremorel said.
"And you," interrupted M. Lecoq, "did you believe all this story
about a jealous servant?"
"Not quite; but I fancied that he had some intrigue on foot, and I
wasn't sorry to help him deceive a woman whom I detested, and who
had wronged me."
"So you did as he told you?"
"Exactly, from beginning to end; everything happened just as Hector
had foreseen.
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