Granville's estate

"You're talking nonsense. When my brother was sick, my mother gave him medicine like this."

Hearing his partner say that the charity they got was sugar, the scavenger who picked up the big bone retorted unconvinced, but he must have seen from the behavior of the brunette scavenger that it was a "good thing", so He held all the candies he got tightly in the palm of his hand: "At that time, my father went to the pharmacy to buy this medicine. He said that he spent a whole franc and four sous on the medicine, which was enough for us to eat. Two days worth of potatoes!"

The brunette scavenger ignored his partner. He licked his lips after eating all the candies he got, and stared eagerly at the basket containing candies in Karbo's hand: "Sir, kind sir! Can you give me another Some sugar? I have three brothers and two sisters, and my father and mother at home, and they have never tasted sugar. Please, sir, give me some more!"

"Good sir, give us a few bucks too!"

While the brown-haired scavengers begged Cabo for more sweets, the two adult scavengers in baggy velveteen coats—their muddy harvest stuffed into their coats hampered their arrival— —Finally ran to Kabo, they thought these scavengers just got some copper coins: "Sir, have pity on us, I have three children in my family, they cry every day from hunger, I don't have enough money to buy Potatoes feed them!"

"Yes, yes, sir, give us a few cents, and we will pray for you every day before the Virgin Mary."

The scavenger with the gas lamp tied to his chest echoed his companion's words, but his actual behavior was much worse-relying on his height and strength advantages, he tried to push the children away and let himself Not only that, but he snatched the candy from the dog poop scavenger and stuffed it into his pocket when he saw the opportunity.

"What are you doing!"

Kabo naturally also noticed the behavior of the scavenger, he reprimanded sharply, and at the same time took two steps back, lest the children would be pushed and shoved on him; For a moment, then wept.

All of a sudden, the originally quiet and peaceful street became very noisy. The scavenger who was robbed of candy cried and screamed, jumping and trying to get back what he deserved from the adult scavenger (in this way, The brunette scavenger just ate all the candy he got was a wise choice); and the two adult scavengers didn't pay attention to these children, they just held out the begging candy to Kabo Hand: "Sir, sir, please! My children are sick and they are starving!"

"If you want money, pick it up yourself!"

These two scavengers who were rushing towards him recklessly reeked of stench and behaved so horrible that Carbo took another step back, then grabbed a handful of candies from the candy basket and threw them on their heads. Throw it away; the two scavengers thought that what he spilled was coins, so they all lowered their heads to search for the good things that fell on the ground. Taking advantage of this time, the servant grabbed a handful of candies from the basket and stuffed them into the scavenger who picked up dog poop. Then he handed the leftover candy and the whole basket to the brown-haired scavenger: "Go, go!"

The scavenger with brown curly hair obviously didn't expect his good luck to come so suddenly. He was stunned for a while before he realized that he snatched the candy basket from Karbo's hand and hugged it tightly, then quickly walked along the road. Malu ran away; the bone scavenger was the second to understand Kabo's intentions. After he followed the brown-haired scavenger for a distance, he realized that he had left out a companion who was bullied together, so he went again Turning around, he pulled away the last partner who was still there: "Goodbye, kind sir!"

Two adult scavengers, abandoned by their children, clumsily picked up a few pieces of candy that had fallen on the floor, and were disappointed to find that they were not the silver and copper coins they had dreamed of - although these beautifully crafted candies cost less than six francs. A catty of white sugar is much more expensive, but it is impossible to sell the candy covered with mud for this price, and it is impossible for them to keep the candy in the bag with garbage: "Sir, good sir! Give us A little money! We have to carry tens of pounds for twenty miles every day, and we can get two sous in exchange, sir, do me a favor!"

"When you bully others, it doesn't look like you have to walk twenty miles a day." Carbo said angrily, but he still took out two one-franc silver coins from his pocket and threw them at the feet of the scavengers. Then he turned his head and walked towards the carriage: "Don't follow us anymore, or I'll ask the police to lock you up!"

As soon as they saw the silver coins gleaming under the light of the street lamp, the two scavengers didn't care about Kabo. The scavengers with the gas lamp tied to their chests rushed to the ground and grabbed the two silver coins together with the soil on the ground. It was in his hand; but when he was about to get up from the ground, the scavenger with the iron rod hit him severely with the rod: "That's my money!"

"Whoever gets it gets it!"

Cabo didn't bother with the two scavengers anymore. He nodded slightly to Louis on the carriage, and then returned to his rental carriage. The two re-started carriages quickly left the fighting scavengers Behind——However, when the carriage drove out of Charlot Street, Louis saw a Paris patrolman walking in the direction they came from, wondering if he had spotted the scavengers fighting on the street, and prepared Take them to the police court.

"There are a lot of rich people in this city, but there are more poor and unfortunate people." Louis thought to himself, and he couldn't help thinking of the poor and hopeless people in the No.12 district of Paris that he had been to. Naturally, he became depressed; however, as his carriage approached 79 St. George Street, his troubles soon became how he was going to respond to Allaide's concerns. He'd never wished so much that Al had gone to bed and wasn't waiting for him to come back!

Maybe it was the Holy Mary who heard Louis' prayer. When Louis returned to 79 St. George Street, he found that Alred was not waiting for him, but he did not see his friends and boys at home either. The figure of servant Joseph.

At first, Louis thought that his friend went to see Miss Margaret again, and he was still a little unhappy, but when he asked Mary and Father Tongsal who were staying at home, he realized that Things seem to be worse than Al just staying at home and waiting for him to come back—according to Papa Tunsar, Alred took Joseph to the Durand Bank in a carriage to pick him up as early as eight o'clock Yes, the carriage came back once halfway, saying that Louis was not found at the Bank of Durand on Boulevard Angdan, and he might need to visit Viscount Durand at one of the mansions of the Durand family in the Saint-Germain district!

"That is to say, Al went to the Durand Bank in a carriage to find me a long time ago?"

Louis gasped in astonishment, and he asked Papa Tonsar, "Papa, did you make a mistake? I've been at the Durand Bank on Boulevard Angdan, but no one told me that Al was looking for Me." If we set out from St. George's Street at eight o'clock, Al's carriage would arrive at the Durand Bank at around nine o'clock, when Louis and Callister were having dinner in the small restaurant-but there was no attendant at all. Reported to Callister that there are guests coming to visit or something!

"Sir, how could I remember the wrong time? Don't think I'm an old fool. My memory is much better than that kid Joseph."

Father Tongsal refuted Louis' words very unhappy, and he even pulled Mary to testify for himself: "I remember very clearly that it was nine fifty when Mr. Allred came back from Durand Bank, and he thought You've come back from Durand Bank! They started the second time at the beginning of ten o'clock, when Mr. Vinson at the end of the street happened to be passing us in a cab--the little boy who never It was this time to have an affair with the old woman who supported him, and his carriage almost collided with our husband's carriage, which gave Mary a big jump! Don't you think so, Mary?"

"Yes, Mr. Louis, Mr. Vincent has always been punctual when he passed by here," Mary said, and she seemed a little terrified: "Papa Martin was so careless at that time that the two carriages almost collided with each other. , Joseph was also in the carriage at that time, and it frightened me!"

Louis looked at Mary in amazement, then at Papa Tonsar, and finally cast his doubtful eyes on the attendant who sent him back to No. 79 St. George Street: "Carbo, you know what happened. something?"

"I can swear to the Virgin Mary, I have not received any news about Mr. de Granville's visit to 51 Boulevard d'Antin, Mr. Farentin, no one has reported it to me." Carbo replied, and he shook hands. He fisted, put the back of his hand to his mouth and coughed lightly: "However, according to what your servant said, I think I probably know what's going on."

"What's going on?" Louis asked. If Karbo hadn't said that he could swear to the Virgin Mary, he would have wondered if the attendant had deliberately concealed the news of Alred under the Viscount's signal.

"That's right, Mr. Farentin." Carbo said, his expression seemed very sincere: "You also know that our husband is in charge of the Durand Bank, and is highly valued by His Highness the Earl of Artois, so many people want to get it He interviewed him in order to get money or a shortcut to his future; even if some of them were rejected, they would still try their best to continue to ask for an interview, which was really annoying. After a long time, Durand Bank’s When some attendants encounter visitors who have not agreed in advance, they will send people away without notifying me and my husband—I think M. de Granville should have encountered such a situation."