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I descended, and found O'Brien preparing for a start. He was very melancholy, and said to me, "Peter, if I am taken, you must, at all risks, put on your girl's clothes and go to Flushing to the cabaret. The women there, I am sure, will protect you, and send you back to England. I only want two Napoleons; take all the rest, you will require them.
Evidently the cabaret had little of interest to Miss Kendall, who, after a glance that took in the whole dining-room and disclosed none there in the gay crowd who, as far as we could see, had any relation to the case, seemed bored. Craig noticed it and at once rose to go. As we passed out and into the corridor, Miss Kendall turned and whispered, "Look over at the desk Dr. Harris."
At the cabaret where we stopped, we were informed, that the officer who was at the hotel had been appointed to the command of the strong fort of Bergen-op-Zoom, and was proceeding thither. "We must not chance to meet him again, if possible," said O'Brien; "it would be treading too close upon the heels of his duty.
"The sailor being both tall and slim, The lady fell in love with him," when pater familias wandered in and inquired, "Whyfore the cabaret?" I explained that Dinkie, since coming south, had seemed to demand an even-song or two before slipping off.
Whistler's kind of mother, full of sweet years that were richer because she had dwelt in them, but whose eyelids were a little weary, had no place there. Mrs. Gronauer, who occupied an outside, southern-exposure suite of five rooms and three baths, jazz-danced on the same cabaret floor with her granddaughters. Fads for the latest personal accoutrements gripped the Bon Ton in seasonal epidemics.
In this direction the road cannot be missed to the turf cabaret which stands on the sharp edge of the mountain. It is curious to look back a moment from this elevated spot down the narrow valley behind you, and observe the road curling from below your feet into blue distance, like the coils of an immeasurable white snake.
We are but a hundred of poor châlets." "An auberge, then a cabaret anything?" "Les Trois Chèvres. It is not for such as you." "Is it, then, that I must toil onwards to Châtelard?" "Monsieur does not know? The Hôtel Royal was burned to the walls six months since." "It follows that I must lie in the fields." Madame hesitates, ponders, and makes up her mind.
"The world is large ... And I love life! ... There, now, I was the same way in the convent: I lived on and I lived on; sang antiphonies and dulias, until I had rested up, and had finally grown weary of it; and then all at once hop! and into a cabaret ... Wasn't that some jump?
But presently, having turned aside from one irregular street into another, I did not know what was the direction in which I went. The only noises that I heard were those caused by the wind, excepting when now and then came suddenly a burst of loud talk, mingled mirth and jangling, as quickly shut off, when the door of some cabaret opened and closed.
Leigh waited until all was over, returned to the cabaret where he had left his horse, and rode on. Passing through the little town of Pin a powerful-looking man, some thirty-five years old, with a quiet manner, broad forehead, and intelligent face, stepped up to him. "Pardon, monsieur," he said; "but you have come from Saint Florent?" "Yes," he replied. "Has aught happened there?"
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