Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Émile Gaboriau

Author:Émile Gaboriau
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Detective and mystery stories, Fiction
Published: 2008-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

"Paul."

"Do you know your father?"

"No."

"Doesn't your mother ever talk to you about him?"

"Oh, yes!"

"And what does she say?"

"That he's rich—very rich."

"And what else?"

The child did not reply; perhaps his mother had forbidden him to say anything on the subject—perhaps that instinct which precedes intelligence, just as the dawn precedes daylight, warned him to be prudent with a stranger. "Doesn't your papa ever come to see you?" insisted Chupin.

"Never."

"Why?"

"Mamma is very poor."

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