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But when, by the light of the carriage-lamps, he saw two men in this lonely spot, he imagined that they wanted his purse, and perhaps his life. "I am engaged!" he cried out, as he cracked his whip in the air; "I am waiting here for someone." "I know that, you fool," replied M. Verduret, "and only wish to ask you a question, which you can gain five francs by answering.
With common impulse they hastened towards it. It was a travelling carriage a rare sight in those parts at any time, and rarer still in winter. Both of them had certainly seen one before, but as certainly, never a pair of lighted carriage-lamps, with reflectors to make of them fiendish eyes.
"All the way!" said Harding, graphically; and it was then that after a few words of arrangement the two friends parted, to catch what might still remain of uneasy morning slumber, in which red women, flying carriage-lamps and respectable young men skulking in doorways and areas, were very likely to be prominent.
"Where does my moth-er come?" timidly. The question embarrassed. "Er the place is full of carriage-lamps," he began; "and and side-lights, and search-lights, and er lanterns." She looked concerned. "I can't guess." "Just ordinary lanterns," he added. "You see, the Madam comes to to Robin Hood's Barn." "Robin Hood's Barn!" "Exactly. Nice day, isn't it?"
The carriage-lamps of Gwen's conveyance, a closed brougham her father had made a sine qua non of her departure, shone on a highway that had seen little traffic since the thaw set in, and that still had on it a memory of fallen snow, and on either side of it the yielding shroud that had made the land so white and would soon leave it so black.
A moment he saw her dimly, in the glare of carriage-lamps, a white vision, half eclipsed by the black silhouette of the man at her side; then they glided away over the crunching gravel of the drive, into the fiery night of London. "Do you really think it went off well?" she asked, as they passed through the gates into the street.
There were carriage-lamps along the stream now. Alternating with these were automobile lights brass side-lights, and larger brass search-lights, all like great glowing eyes. Again They were in advance. "We can't be very far from the Barn," They announced. And each waved his right arm in a half-circle. "Robin Hood's Barn?" whispered Gwendolyn. The Policeman nodded.
Through the efforts at wakefulness, she watched the gleams that fell within from the carriage-lamps, the strange shadows on the roadside, the boughs tossing to the wind and flickering all their leaves in the speeding light; she watched, also, Mr. Raleigh's face, on which, in the fitful flashes, she detected a look of utter weariness. "Monsieur," she exclaimed, "il faut que je vous gêne!"
He peered out for an instant over the coverlet and saw the yellow curtains round and before his bed that shut him off on all sides. The light was lowered quietly. The prefect's shoes went away. Where? Down the staircase and along the corridors or to his room at the end? He saw the dark. Was it true about the black dog that walked there at night with eyes as big as carriage-lamps?
By the light of the carriage-lamps, indeed, the half-caste recognized the good, honest face of Dupont, formerly bailiff, and now house-steward, to Mdlle. de Cardoville. It must not be forgotten that Dupont had been the first to write to Mdlle. de Cardoville, to ask her to interest herself for Djalma, who was then detained at Cardoville Castle by the injuries he had received during the shipwreck.
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