To-morrow I will try to get you across the frontier." But Silvere shrugged his shoulders.

"Let me pass," he calmly replied.
"I'm not a police-spy; I shall not reveal your hiding-place, never fear." And as Rougon continued to speak of the family dignity and the authority with which his seniority invested him: "Do I belong to your family ?" the young man continued.

"You have always disowned me.

To-day, fear has driven you here, because you feel that the day of judgment has arrived.

Come, make way! I don't hide myself; I have a duty to perform." Rougon did not stir.