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At any rate, he did not propose to Athalie at Monte Carlo; and, although he and his sister returned to Paris at the same time as the baron and his daughter, he still deferred the proposal." "Has he not made it yet?" "Yes, Mr. Cleek. He made it six weeks ago to be exact, two nights before the Villa de Carjorac was fired." "You think it was fired, then?"
"Oh!" she said, with a shiver of repulsion. "It is horrible it is necromancy beyond belief! Why, oh, why were we ever driven to that horrible Château Larouge? Why could not fate have spared the Villa de Carjorac? It could not have happened then!" "Villa de Carjorac? That was the name of the baron's residence, I believe.
The inference is very clear: Baron de Carjorac is President of the Board of National Defences; Germany, in spite of its public assurances to the contrary, is known by those who are 'on the inside' to harbour a very determined intention of making a secret attack, an unwarned invasion, upon England. France is the key to the situation.
Something of the utmost importance to German interests. That's why the Château Larouge was refitted, why the Villa de Carjorac was burnt down, and why this Monsieur Gaston Merode became engaged to Mademoiselle Athalie." "Oh, how could you know that, Mr. Cleek? Nobody ever suspected.
I can guess the remainder of your story now. You carried this news to the Baron de Carjorac, and he, breaking down, confessed to you that he had lost something." "Yes, yes a dreadful 'something, Mr. Cleek: the horrible thing that has been making life an agony to him ever since.
"No, it is not," she made reply, a rush of colour reddening her cheeks, a feeling of embarrassment and of a natural restraint making her shake visibly. "I am merely the envoy of another. I should not know you, disguised as you are, but for that. Yes, I chose the French position, as you see, Mr. Cleek. I am now the companion to Mademoiselle Athalie, daughter of the Baron de Carjorac."
Gentlemen of the Apache persuasion have frequently made it a place of retreat. There is also an underground passage, executed by those same individuals, which connects with the Paris sewers. That, too, the police are unaware of. What can the ruined Château Larouge possibly have to do with the affairs of the Baron de Carjorac, Miss Lorne, that you connect them like this?"
Of course, when the villa was burnt out, Madame la Comtesse insisted that, as the fiancée of her brother, Mademoiselle de Carjorac must make her home at the Château until the necessary repairs could be completed; and, of course, the baron had to go with her?" "Yes," admitted Ailsa.
"They have everything to do with them everything. The Château is no longer a ruin, however. It was purchased, rebuilt, refitted by the Comtesse Susanne de la Tour, Mr. Cleek, and she and her brother live there. So do we Athalie, Baron de Carjorac, and I. So, also, does the creature the thing the abominable horror known as 'The Red Crawl." "My dear Miss Lorne, what are you saying?"
To carry out this programme, the first step would, of course, be to secure knowledge of the number, location, manner of the secret defences of France the plans of fortification, the maps of the 'danger zone, the documentary evidence of her strongest and weakest points and who so likely to be the guardian of these as the Baron de Carjorac?
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