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"Cammercy after all!" said Count Victor to himself; "I shall wake in a moment, but yet for a nightmare 'tis the most extraordinary I have ever experienced." "I hope you are a good Christian," said the Chamberlain, ready first and waiting, bending his borrowed weapon in malignant arcs above his head.
There was no wind; the landscape swooned in frost. "My faith! 'tis an odd and dolorous world at six o'clock in the morning," thought Count Victor; "I wish I were asleep in Cammercy and all well."
"I have been in every part of Europe," said the Chamberlain; "and it must have been by the oddest of mischances I have not been at Cammercy itself, for well I knew your uncle's friends, though, as it happened, we were of a different complexion of politics.
In a castle so sparsely occupied the very knowledge of this long and empty corridor in the neighbourhood of his sleeping apartment conferred a sense of chill and mystery. He thought he could perceive the odour of damp, decayed wood, crumbled lime, hanging rotten in stagnant airs and covered with the dust of years. "Dieu!" he exclaimed involuntarily, "this is no Cammercy."
"Oh, Glengarry Alasdair Rhuadh!" exclaimed the Baron, dryly. "And presumed to be burdened with a dangerous name, he passed with the name of Drimdarroch." "Drimdarroch!" repeated the Baron with some apparent astonishment. "I have never seen the man, so far as I know, for I was at Cammercy when he hung about the lady." "Drimdarroch!" repeated Doom reflectively, "a mere land title."
Arm in arm they went out in front of the inn and walked along the bay, and the Provost and the Bailies were left mourning for their king. "You must not fancy the name and the reputation of the gentlemen of Cammercy unknown in these parts," said the Chamberlain.
If his very ungracious Grace refuses to see when a man is dying of cold for want of a coat, shall the man not help himself to a loan? M. le Duc owes Cammercy something for that ride in a glass coach, and for a night of a greatcoat I shall be pleased to discharge the family obligation." Count Victor there and then came to a bold decision.
But yes, it is a play; surely it is a play; or else I am in bed in Cammercy suffering from one of old Jeanne's heavy late suppers. It is then that I must waken myself into the little room with the pink hangings."
But he remembered also Cameron, Macleod, Traquair, a score of gallant hearts, of handsome gentlemen, and Lochiel, true chevalier perhaps a better than his king! It was of these Count Victor spoke of their faith, their valiancies, their shifts of penury and pride. He had used often to consort with them at Cammercy, and later on in Paris.
She bit her nether lip the orchards of Cammercy, he told himself, never bred a cherry a thousandth part so rich and so inviting, even to look at in candle-light; a shy dubiety hovered round her eyes. He waited her pleasure to speak. "Perhaps," said she softly, relinquishing her brave demeanour "perhaps it might be well that that my father knew nothing of this meeting, or or or of what led to it."
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