When they
were well out of ear-shot, he spoke these words:
"You have been exposed as a villain by your brother-in-law, and
renounced as a liar by your mother. They have done their duty by
you, and now it only remains for me to do mine. When a man enters
the house of another under false pretenses, and compromises the
reputation of his daughter, we old army men have a very
expeditious way of making him answer for it. It is just three
o'clock now; at five you will find me and one of my friends--"
He stopped, and looked round cautiously--then whispered the rest
in Danville's ear--threw open the door, and pointed downstairs.
"Our work here is done," said Lomaque, laying his hand on
Trudaine's arm. "Let us give Danville time to get clear of the
house, and then leave it too."
"My sister! where is she?" asked Trudaine, eagerly.
"Make your mind easy about her. I will tell you more when we get
out."
"You will excuse me, I know," said General Berthelin, speaking to
all the persons present, with his hand on the library door, "if I
leave you. I have bad news to break to my daughter, and private
business after that to settle with a friend."
He saluted the company, with his usual bluff nod of the head, and
entered the library. A few minutes afterward, Trudaine and
Lomaque left the house.
"You will find your sister waiting for you in our apartment at
the hotel," said the latter.
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