M. de Thaller, beside himself, was advancing to seize the baroness: she was drawing back, knowing him, perhaps to be capable of any thing, when suddenly there was a violent knocking at the door.
“In the name of the law!”
It was a commissary of police.
And, whilst surrounded by agents, they were taken to a cab.
* * *
“Orphan on both sides!” exclaimed Mlle. Cesarine, “I am free, then. Now we’ll have some fun!”
At that very moment, M. de Tregars and Mlle. Gilberte reached the Rue St. Gilles.
Hearing that her husband had been found,
“I must see him!” exclaimed Mme. Favoral.
And, in spite of any thing they could tell her, she threw a shawl over her shoulders, and started with Mlle. Gilberte.