
[2803] Two remarks.
[2804] The Molloy whom I stealthily approached could hardly resemble [⁁]Between the Molloy I stalked within me thus and the
true Molloy, after whom I was so soon to be in full cry, over hill and
dale, other than remotely.[₰] the resemblance cannot have been great.
[2805] I was annexing perhaps already, without my knowing it, to the [⁁]my private Molloy,
thus retrieved within me, elements of the Molloy described by Gaber.
[2806] The fact was there were three, no, four Molloys.
[2807] He that inhabited
me, my caricature of same, Gaber's and the man of flesh and blood
somewhere awaiting me.
[2808] To these I would add that Youdi's were it not for
Gaber's prodigious exactitude in everything connected with his missions. corpse fidelity to the letter of his messages.
[2809] Bad reasoning.
[2810] For could it seriously be supposed that Youdi had confided
to Gaber all he knew, or thought he knew(all one to Youdi) about his ward?
protégé ?
[2811] Assuredly not.
[2812] He had only mentioned [⁁][rec] revealed what he deemed of
relevance for the prompt and proper execution of his orders.
[2813] I will
therefore add a fifth Molloy, that of Youdi.
[2814] But would not this fifth
Molloy necessarily coincide with the fourth, the real one as the saying
is, the one him dogged by his shadow?
[2815] I would have given a lott to know.
[2816] There were others too, of course. [2817] But let us leave it at that, if you
don't mind, the party is big enough.
[2818] And let us not meddle either with
the question as to how far these five Molloys were constant and how far
subject to variation.
[2819] For there was this about Youdi, that he changed
his mind with great facility.
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