AURICE D'ESPARVIEU passed a terrible night. At the least sound he seized his revolver that he might not fall alive into the hands of justice. When morning came he snatched the newspapers from the hands of the concierge1, devoured2 them greedily, and gave a cry of joy; he had just read that Inspector3 Grolle having been taken to the Morgue for the post-mortem, the police-surgeons had only discovered bruises4 and contusions of a very superficial nature, and stated that death had been brought about by the rupture5 of an aneurism of the aorta6.
"You see, Arcade7," he exclaimed triumphantly9; "you see I am not an assassin. I am innocent. I could never have imagined how extremely agreeable it is to be innocent."
Then he grew thoughtful, and—no unusual phenomenon—reflection dissipated his gaiety.[323]
"I am innocent,—but there is no disguising the fact," he said, shaking his head, "I am one of a band of malefactors. I live with miscreants10. You are in your right place there, Arcade, for you are deceitful, cruel, and perverse12. But I come of good family and have received an excellent education, and I blush for it."
"I also," said Arcade, "have received an excellent education."
"Where was that?"
"In Heaven."
"No, Arcade, no; you never had any education. If good principles had been inculcated into you, you would still hold them. Such principles are never lost. In my childhood I learnt to revere13 my family, my country, my religion. I have not forgotten the lesson and I never shall. Do you know what shocks me most in you? It is not your perversity14, your cruelty, your black ingratitude15; it is not your agnosticism, which may be borne with at a pinch; it is not your scepticism, though it is very much out of date (for since the national awakening16 there is no longer any scepticism in France);—no, what disgusts me in you is your lack of taste, the bad style of your ideas, the inelegance of your doctrines17. You think like an intellectual, you speak like a freethinker, you have theories which reek18 of radicalism19 and Combeism and all ignoble20 systems. Get along with you! you[324] disgust me. Arcade, my old friend, Arcade, my dear angel, Arcade, my beloved child, listen to your guardian21 angel! Yield to my prayers, renounce22 your mad ideas; become good, simple, innocent, and happy once more. Put on your hat, come with me to N?tre-Dame. We will say a prayer and burn a candle together."
Meanwhile public opinion was still active in the matter; the leading papers, the organs of the national awakening, in articles of real elevation23 and real depth, unravelled24 the philosophy of this monstrous25 attack which was revolting to the conscience. They discovered the real origin, the indirect but effective cause in the revolutionary doctrines which had been disseminated26 unchecked, in the weakening of social ties, the relaxing of moral discipline, in the repeated appeals to every appetite, to every greedy desire. It would be needful, so as to cut down the evil at its root, to repudiate27 as quickly as possible all such chimeras28 and Utopias as syndicalism, the income-tax, etc., etc., etc. Many newspapers, and these not the least important, pointed29 out that the recrudescence of crime was but the natural fruit of impiety30 and concluded that the salvation31 of society lay in an unanimous and sincere return to religion. On the Sunday which followed the crime the congregations in the churches were noticed to be unusually large.[325]
Judge Salneuve, who was entrusted32 with the task of investigation33, first examined the persons arrested by the police, and lost his way among attractive but illusory clues; however, the report of the detective Montremain, which was laid before him, put him on the right road, and soon led him to recognise the miscreants of La Jonchère as the authors of the crime of the Rue11 de Ramey. He ordered a search to be made for Arcade and Zita, and issued a warrant against Prince Istar, on whom the detectives laid hands as he was leaving Bouchotte's, where he had been depositing some bombs of new design. The Ker?b, on learning the detectives' intentions, smiled broadly and asked them if they had a powerful motor-car. On their replying that they had one at the door, he assured them that was all he wanted. Thereupon he felled the two detectives on the stairs, walked up to the waiting car, flung the chauffeur34 under a motor-'bus which was opportunely35 passing, and seized the steering36 wheel under the eyes of the terrified crowd.
That same evening Monsieur Jeancourt, the Police Magistrate37, entered Théophile's rooms just when Bouchotte was swallowing a raw egg to clear her voice, for she was to sing her new song, "They haven't got any in Germany," at the "National Eldorado" that evening. The musician was absent. Bouchotte received the Magistrate,[326] and received him with a hauteur38 which intensified39 the simplicity40 of her attire41; Bouchotte was en déshabille. The worthy42 Magistrate seized the score of Aline, Queen of Golconda, and the love-letters which the singer carefully preserved in the drawer of the table by her bed, for she was an orderly young woman. He was about to withdraw when he espied43 a cupboard, which he opened with a careless air, and found machines capable of blowing up half Paris, and a pair of large white wings, whose nature and use appeared inexplicable44 to him. Bouchotte was invited to complete her toilette, and, in spite of her cries, was taken off to the police-station.
Monsieur Salneuve was indefatigable45. After the examination of the papers seized in Bouchotte's house, and acting46 on the information of Montremain, he issued a warrant for the arrest of young d'Esparvieu, which was executed on Wednesday, the 27th May, at seven o'clock in the morning, with great discretion47. For three days Maurice had neither slept nor eaten, loved nor lived. He had not a moment's doubt as to the nature of the matutinal visit. At the sight of the police magistrate a strange calm fell on him. Arcade had not returned to sleep in the flat. Maurice begged the magistrate to wait for him, dressed with care, and then accompanied the magistrate[327] a calmness of mind which was barely disturbed when the door of the Conciergerie closed on him. Alone in his cell, he climbed upon the table to look out. His tranquillity48 was due to his weariness of spirit, to his numbed49 senses, and to the fact that he no longer stood in fear of arrest. His misfortune endowed him with superior wisdom. He felt he had fallen into a state of grace. He did not think too highly or too humbly50 of himself, but left his cause in the hands of God. With no desire to cover up his faults, which he would not hide even from himself, he addressed himself in mind to Providence51, to point out that if he had fallen into disorder52 and rebellion it was to lead his erring53 angel back into the straight path. He stretched himself on the couch and slept in peace.
On hearing of the arrest of a music-hall singer and of a young man of fashion, both Paris and the provinces felt painful surprise. Deeply stirred by the tragic54 accounts which the leading newspapers were bringing out, the general idea was that the sort of people the authorities ought to bring to justice were ferocious55 anarchists57, all reeking58 and dripping from deeds of blood and arson59; but they failed to understand what the world of Art and Fashion should have to do with such things. At this news, which he was one of the last to hear, the President of the Council and Keeper of the Seals started up in his chair.[328] The Sphinxes that adorned60 it were less terrible than he, and in the throes of his angry meditation61 he cut the mahogany of his imperial table with his penknife, after the manner of Napoleon. And when Judge Salneuve, whose attendance he had commanded, appeared before him, the President flung his penknife in the grate, as Louis XIV flung his cane62 out of the window in the presence of Lauzun; and it cost him a supreme63 effort to master himself and to say in a voice of suppressed fury:
"Are you mad? Surely I said often enough that I meant the plot to be anarchist56, anti-social, fundamentally anti-social and anti-governmental, with a shade of syndicalism. I have made it clear enough that I wanted it kept within these lines; and what do you go and make of it?... The vengeance64 of anarchists and aspirants65 to freedom? Whom do you arrest? A singer adored of the nationalist public, and the son of a man highly esteemed66 in the Catholic party, who receives our bishops67 and has the entrée to the Vatican; a man who may be one day sent as ambassador to the Pope. At one blow you alienate68 one hundred and sixty Deputies and forty Senators of the Right on the very eve of a motion to discuss the question of religious pacification69; you embroil70 me with my friends of to-day, with my friends of to-morrow. Was it to find out if you were in the same dilemma71 as des Aubels that you seized the love-letters of[329] young Maurice d'Esparvieu? I can put your mind at rest on that point. You are, and all Paris knows it. But it is not to avenge72 your personal affronts73 that you are on the Bench."
"Monsieur le Garde des Sceaux," murmured the Judge, nearly apoplectic74 and in a choked voice. "I am an honest man."
"You are a fool ... and a provincial75. Listen to me; if Maurice d'Esparvieu and Mademoiselle Bouchotte are not released within half an hour I will crush you like a piece of glass. Be off!"
Monsieur René d'Esparvieu went himself to fetch his son from the Conciergerie and took him back to the old house in the Rue Garancière. The return was triumphant8. The news had been disseminated that Maurice had with generous imprudence interested himself in an attempt to restore the monarchy76, and that Judge Salneuve, the infamous77 freemason, the tool of Combes and André, had tried to compromise the young man by making him out to be an accomplice78 of a band of criminals.
That was what Abbé Patouille seemed to think, and he answered for Maurice as for himself. It was known, moreover, that breaking with his father, who had rallied to the support of the Republic, young d'Esparvieu was on the high road to becoming an out-and-out Royalist. The people who had an inside knowledge of things[330] saw in his arrest the vengeance of the Jews. Was not Maurice a notorious anti-Semite? Catholic youths went forth79 to hurl80 imprecations at Judge Salneuve under the windows of his residence in the Rue Guénégaud, opposite the Mint.
On the Boulevard du Palais a band of students presented Maurice with a branch of palm. Maurice made a charming reply.
Maurice was overcome with emotion when he beheld81 the old house in which his childhood had been spent, and fell weeping into his mother's arms.
It was a great day, unhappily marred82 by one painful incident. Monsieur Sariette, who had lost his reason as a consequence of the shocking events that had taken place in the Rue de Courcelles, had suddenly become violent. He had shut himself up in the library, and there he had remained for twenty-four hours, uttering the most horrible cries, and, turning a deaf ear alike to threats and entreaties84, refused to come out. He had spent the night in a condition of extreme restlessness, for all night long the lamp had been seen passing rapidly to and fro behind the curtains. In the morning, hearing Hippolyte shouting to him from the court below, he opened the window of the Hall of the Spheres and the Philosophers, and heaved two or three rather weighty tomes on to the old valet's head. The whole of the domestic[331] staff—men, women, and boys—hurried to the spot, and the librarian proceeded to throw out books by the armful on to their heads. In view of the gravity of the situation, Monsieur René d'Esparvieu did not disdain85 to intervene. He appeared in night-cap and dressing-gown, and attempted to reason with the poor lunatic, whose only reply was to pour forth torrents86 of abuse on the man whom till then he had worshipped as his benefactor87, and to endeavour to crush him beneath all the Bibles, all the Talmuds, all the sacred books of India and Persia, all the Greek Fathers, and all the Latin Fathers, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, all the apologists, ay! and under the Histoire des Variations, annotated88 by Bossuet himself! Octavos, quartos, folios came crashing down, and lay in a sordid89 heap on the courtyard pavement. The letters of Gassendi, of Père Mersenne, of Pascal, were blown about hither and thither90 by the wind. The lady's-maid who had stooped down to rescue some of the sheets from the gutter91 got a blow on the head from an enormous Dutch atlas92. Madame René d'Esparvieu had been terrified by the ominous93 sounds, and appeared on the scene without waiting to apply the finishing touches of powder and paint. When he caught sight of her, old Sariette became more violent than ever. Down they came one after another as hard as he could pelt94 them;[332] the busts95 of the poets, philosophers, and historians of antiquity—Homer, ?schylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Seneca, Epictetus—all lay scattered96 on the ground. The celestial97 sphere and the terrestrial globe descended98 with a terrifying crash that was followed by a ghastly hush99, broken only by the shrill100 laughter of little Léon, who was looking down on the scene from a window above. A locksmith having opened the library door, all the household hastened to enter, and found the aged101 Sariette entrenched102 behind piles of books, busily engaged in tearing and slashing103 away at the Lucretius of the Prior de Vend104?me annotated in Voltaire's own hand. They had to force a way through the barricade105. But the maniac106, perceiving that his stronghold was being invaded, fled away and escaped on to the roof. For two whole hours he gave vent83 to shouts and yells that were heard far and wide. In the Rue Garancière the crowd kept growing bigger and bigger. All had their eyes fixed107 on the unhappy creature, and whenever he stumbled on the slates108, which cracked beneath him, they gave a shout of terror. In the midst of the crowd, the Abbé Patouille, who expected every moment to see him hurled109 into space, was reciting the prayers for the dying, and making ready to give him the absolution in extremis. There was a cordon110 of police round[333] the house keeping order. Someone summoned the fire-brigade, and the sound of their approach was soon heard. They placed a ladder against the wall of the house, and after a terrific struggle managed to secure the maniac, who in the course of his desperate resistance had one of the muscles of his arm torn out. He was immediately removed to an asylum111.
Maurice dined at home, and there were smiles of tenderness and affection when Victor, the old butler, brought on the roast veal112. Monsieur l'Abbé Patouille sat at the right hand of the Christian113 mother, unctuously114 contemplating115 the family which Heaven had so plentifully116 blessed. Nevertheless, Madame d'Esparvieu was ill at ease. Every day she received anonymous117 letters of so insulting and coarse a nature that she thought at first they must come from a discharged footman. She now knew they were the handiwork of her youngest daughter, Berthe, a mere118 child! Little Léon, too, gave her pain and anxiety. He paid no attention to his lessons, and was given to bad habits. He showed a cruel disposition119. He had plucked his sister's canaries alive; he stuck innumerable pins into the chair on which Mademoiselle Caporal was accustomed to sit, and had stolen fourteen francs from the poor girl, who did nothing but cry and dab120 her eyes and nose from morning till night.
No sooner was dinner over than Maurice rushed[334] off to the little dwelling121 in the Rue de Rome, impatient to meet his angel again. Through the door he heard a loud sound of voices, and saw assembled in the room where the apparition122 had taken place, Arcade, Zita, the angelic musician, and the Ker?b, who was lying on the bed, smoking a huge pipe, carelessly scorching123 pillows, sheets, and coverlets. They embraced Maurice, and announced their departure. Their faces shone with happiness and courage. Alone, the inspired author of Aline, Queen of Golconda, shed tears and raised his terrified gaze to heaven. The Ker?b forced him into the party of rebellion by setting before him two alternatives: either to allow himself to be dragged from prison to prison on earth, or to carry fire and sword into the palace of Ialdabaoth.
Maurice perceived with sorrow that the earth had scarcely any hold over them. They were setting out filled with immense hope, which was quite justifiable124. Doubtless they were but a few combatants to oppose the innumerable soldiers of the sultan of the heavens; but they counted on compensating125 for the inferiority of their numbers by the irresistible126 impetus127 of a sudden attack. They were not ignorant of the fact that Ialdabaoth, who flatters himself on knowing all things, sometimes allows himself to be taken by surprise. And it certainly looked as if the first attack would have taken him unawares had it not been for the warning[335] of the archangel Michael. The celestial army had made no progress since its victory over the rebels before the beginning of Time.
As regards armaments and material it was as out of date as the army of the Moors128. Its generals slumbered129 in sloth130 and ignorance. Loaded with honours and riches, they preferred the delights of the banquet to the fatigues131 of war. Michael, the commander-in-chief, ever loyal and brave, had lost, with the passing of centuries, his fire and enthusiasm. The conspirators132 of 1914, on the other hand, knew the very latest and the most delicate appliances of science for the art of destruction. At length all was ready and decided133 upon. The army of revolt, assembled by corps134 each a hundred thousand angels strong, on all the waste places of the earth—steppes, pampas, deserts, fields of ice and snow—was ready to launch itself against the sky. The angels, in modifying the rhythm of the atoms of which they are composed, are able to traverse the most varied135 mediums. Spirits that have descended on to the earth, being formed, since their incarnation, of too compact a substance, can no longer fly of themselves, and to rise into ethereal regions and then insensibly grow volatilized, have need of the assistance of their brothers, who, though revolutionaries like themselves, nevertheless, stayed behind in the Empyrean and remained, not immaterial (for all is matter in the Universe), but[336] gloriously untrammelled and diaphanous136. Certes, it was not without painful anxiety that Arcade, Istar, and Zita prepared themselves to pass from the heavy atmosphere of the earth to the limpid137 depths of the heavens. To plunge138 into the ether there is need to expend139 such energy that the most intrepid140 hesitate to take flight. Their very substance, while penetrating141 this fine medium, must in itself grow fine-spun, become vaporised, and pass from human dimensions to the volume of the vastest clouds which have ever enveloped142 the earth. Soon they would surpass in grandeur143 the uttermost planets, whose orbits they, invisible and imponderable, would traverse without disturbing.
In this enterprise—the vastest that angels could undertake—their substance would be ultimately hotter than the fire and colder than the ice, and they would suffer pangs144 sharper than death.
Maurice read all the daring and the pain of the undertaking145 in the eyes of Arcade.
"You are going?" he said to him, weeping.
"We are going, with Nectaire, to seek the great archangel to lead us to victory."
"Whom do you call thus?"
"Unhappy being," sighed Maurice.
Arcade embraced him, and Maurice felt the angel's tears as they dropped upon his cheek.
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