Part 3 (1/2)
”Then he lied?”
”In one respect Your father is dead”
”And my mother?”
”She is dead _for you_”
”But then she lives for others, does she not?”
”Yes”
”And I--and I, then” (the young man looked sharply at Aramis) ”am compelled to live in the obscurity of a prison?”
”Alas! I fear so”
”And that because reat secret?”
”Certainly, a very great secret”
”My enemy must indeed be powerful, to be able to shut up in the Bastile a child such as I then was”
”He is”
”More powerful than my mother, then?”
”And why do you ask that?”
”Because my mother would have taken neur; , then, that my nurse and preceptor were carried off, and that I, also, was separated froerous toto a peril fro the nurse and preceptor to disappear,” answered Aramis, quietly
”Disappear!” cried the prisoner, ”how did they disappear?”
”In a very sure way,” answered Ara ly over his face ”Poison?” he asked
”Poison”
The prisoner reflected a moment ”My enemy must indeed have been very cruel, or hard beset by necessity, to assassinate those two innocent people, entle”
”In your faneur, necessity is stern And so it is necessity which coentleman and the unhappy lady have been assassinated”
”Oh, you tellhis brows