"
"Have you any information relative to the conduct of the old
servant while he was in Paris?"
"I have information enough to prove that he was not an object for
political suspicion. He seems to have been simply animated by
servile zeal for the woman's interests; to have performed for her
all the menial offices of a servant in private; and to have
misled the neighbors by affected equality with her in public."
"Have you any reason to believe that Superintendent Danville was
privy to his mother's first attempt at escaping from France?"
"I infer it from what the female prisoner has said, and for other
reasons which it would be irregular to detail before the
tribunal. The proofs can no doubt be obtained if I am allowed
time to communicate with the authorities at Lyons and
Marseilles."
At this moment Danville re-entered the court; and, advancing to
the table, placed himself close by the chief agent's side. They
looked each other steadily in the face for an instant.
"He has recovered from the shock of Trudaine's answer," thought
Lomaque, retiring. "His hand trembles, his face is pale, but I
can see regained self-possession in his eye, and I dread the
consequences already."
"Citizen president," began Danville, "I demand to know if
anything has transpired affecting my honor and patriotism in my
absence?"
He spoke apparently with the most perfect calmness, but he looked
nobody in the face.
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