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At Geschenen the train stopped for about half-an-hour, so we got out and looked about us, and found, to our delight, the whole of this superb gorge enveloped in snow. The novelty of the sight proved so tempting that we resolved to see more of it, and ascend to Andermatt, some miles from Geschenen, thus sacrificing our railway tickets to Lugano.
He directed me. It was something like sending post cards from Skegness or Bognor, there in the post-office. I was trying to make myself agree to stay in Andermatt for the night. But I could not. The whole place was so terribly raw and flat and accidental, as if great pieces of furniture had tumbled out of a pantechnicon and lay discarded by the road.
"There is something about this affair I don't like. I am going home. Good evening." "One moment!" "No need of that, Mon. Andermatt. I have nothing to say to you." "But I have something to say to you, and this is a good time to say it." "Let me pass." "No, you will not pass." Varin recoiled before the resolute attitude of the banker, as he muttered: "Well, then, be quick about it."
There was the same clicking sound, but this time, strange to relate, it was only a portion of the safe that revolved on the pivot, disclosing quite a small safe that was built within the door of the larger one. The packet of letters was here, tied with a tape, and sealed. Varin handed the packet to Daspry. The latter turned to the banker, and asked: "Is the check ready, Monsieur Andermatt?"
He marched on, then, without worrying about that which was behind him, reached Andermatt, cleared Trou d'Ury, and found Lecourbe guarding the defile of the Devil's Bridge with fifteen hundred men. There the struggle began again; for three days fifteen hundred Frenchmen kept thirty thousand Russians at bay.
"Why did you not appeal to the law?" "Why? Ah! Why ," stammered the banker, with a slight display of emotion. "You know very well, Mon. Andermatt, if you had the least certainty of our guilt, our little threat would not have stopped you." "What threat? Those letters? Do you suppose I ever gave those letters a moment's thought?"
Andermatt on the day of his disappearance, a document that was indispensable to a thorough understanding of the invention. It contained a summary of the final conclusions of the inventor, and estimates and figures not contained in the other papers. Without this document, the plans are incomplete; on the other hand, without the plans, the document is worthless.
Does he not mention in his letters certain details that no one could know, except the man who had thus discovered the secrets of the two brothers?" "Well, then," stammered Madame Andermatt, in great alarm, "he has my letters also, and it is he who now threatens my husband. Mon Dieu! What am I to do?" "Write to him," declared Daspry. "Confide in him without reserve.
"After several interviews, he succeeded in interesting the banker in a sub-marine boat on which he was working, and it was agreed that as soon as the invention was perfected, Mon. Andermatt would use his influence with the Minister of Marine to obtain a series of trials under the direction of the government.
Then he pushed the bewildered Varin through the door. "Daspry! Daspry!" I cried, pushing aside the curtain. He ran to me. "What? What's the matter?" "Madame Andermatt is ill." He hastened to her, caused her to inhale some salts, and, while caring for her, questioned me: "Well, what did it?" "The letters of Louis Lacombe that you gave to her husband."
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