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Updated: June 18, 2025
"He has got off," I said as I returned; "and 'twere well to have your wound looked after, if you mean to have it done." With this I led the way to the door of my house, and opening it bade them enter. The fair-haired man passed in at once, but I caught a gleam in Le Brusquet's hand as he followed. He had drawn his dagger once more.
Once in Le Brusquet's apartments the reaction set in, and flinging myself in a chair I covered my face with my hands for the first time in my life I had broken down utterly. After a while I somewhat recovered myself. Lorgnac was standing with his back to me, looking out of the window, and Le Brusquet was by my side, a glass of cordial in his hand. "Drink this," he said.
There were only two persons there, and I smiled a little to myself at Le Brusquet's caution, for one was pretty Mademoiselle Davila, seated demurely on a tabouret, and the other was a fair-haired boy of sixteen or so, who stood with a red face and an uncomfortable air some distance away from her.
But as he spoke his eyes fell on the ring, and bending over it he continued: "Yes; this is where I have failed save for this I should be off to-morrow but to go with failure behind me " He stopped, for someone knocked at his door, and to Le Brusquet's "Enter!" De Lorgnac stepped in.
In answer, the little ape turned his ribald wit upon me; but now a head appeared above the parapet, a hand seized Pompon and drew him back, and Le Brusquet's voice hailed me, bidding me come up to him. This I did with the aid of a friendly tree, and found him on the top of the wall, stretched out like a lizard in the sun.
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