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But a vague expectation of benefiting by the pretense of affection the desire to have some support in case of Von Sendlingen attacking the excuse and cover her ministration at the sick-bed would afford, all these reasons united to guide her to the Hotel de l'Aigle aux deux Becs, in the rue Caumartin. Her uncle was no longer there.
Why does she call herself Caumartin?" "Oh," said Frederic, "a melancholy but trite story." "Leonie was left a widow, and died in want. What could the poor young daughter do? She found a rich protector, who had influence to get her an appointment in the ballet: and there she did as most girls so circumstanced do appeared under an assumed name, which she has since kept."
Caumartin resumed his place in his machine. John looked longingly at the aeroplane. He would gladly have gone with Caumartin, but feeling that he would be only a burden at such a time, he would not suggest it. Nevertheless he called to the aviator: "If you see Philip Lannes in the heavens tell him that his friend John Scott is here behind a low ridge crested with trees!"
Arabella Crane was, as usual, right in her predictions. Before noon Jasper came, came, not with his jocund swagger, but with that sidelong sinister look of the man whom the world cuts triumphantly restored to its former place in his visage. Madame Caumartin had been arrested; Poole had gone into the country with Uncle Sam; Jasper had seen a police- officer at the door of his own lodgings.
He pointed out to the King that the speech of the Abbe de Caumartin had been revised and corrected by M. de Noyon, and that, therefore, this latter had only himself to blame in the matter. He declared, too, that the Abbe was very sorry for what he had done, and was most willing to beg pardon of M. de Noyon. The lettre de cachet thus fell to the ground, but not the anger of the prelate.
They have had them printed and are selling them at Nancy; but in this copy there are many omissions. A lady at Paris, Madame Caumartin, has a copy in which there is not a word deficient; but she obstinately refused to lend it that the others may be made complete.
She gave the detective some information respecting Madame Caumartin. One day towards the evening she was surprised by a visit from Uncle Sam. He called ostensibly to thank her for her kindness to his godson and nephew; and to beg her not to be offended if he had been rude to Mr. Losely, who, he understood from Dolly, was a particular friend of hers.
First, his education under the Jesuits, which gave him an insight into their system; secondly, his introduction to the irreligious and immoral society of the fashionable abbes of the day, which showed him another side of the official religion of the time; thirdly, the beneficent friendship of the Abbé de Caumartin, who set him thinking about great and ambitious subjects, and led him to write the Henriade, and probably also to begin projecting his Siècle de Louis XIV; fourthly, the enforced leisure of the Bastille, whither he went a second time in 1726 for having resented an insult put on him by a coarse nobleman, one of the Rohans; lastly thanks to the order for his exile his sojourn in England after release from the Bastille, and his friendship for the chief writers and thinkers of this country.
"What o'clock is it? it won't do to get there before the time, like provincials." "Ten minutes to two," said Colleville; "I go by the Tuileries." "Well, then we are just right," said Brigitte; "it will take about that time to get to the rue Caumartin.
The motor has become a wonderful weapon of battle." "May I ask one question, General?" said John. "A dozen." "Do you know where the aviator, Philip Lannes, is? His sister is held a prisoner by a German general in a château toward which we will march, and doubtless he would wish to go at once to her rescue." "He is not here, but his friend, Caumartin, is only a half-mile away.
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