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For a day or two, perhaps, after leaving Cocheforet, while the mountain road and its chances occupied his thoughts, he had not discovered his loss. Then he had searched for the precious sachet, missed it, and returned hot-foot on his tracks.
I longed to pursue the matter further; but though she seemed to entertain no suspicion of me, I dared not run the risk. I tried her, instead, on another tack. 'Mademoiselle de Cocheforet does not seem very well to-day? I said. 'No? she answered carelessly. 'Well, now you speak of it, I do not think that she is. She is often anxious about one we love.
From this moment, M. de Cocheforet, I give you back your parole, and I take my own honour. Farewell. He cried out something as I mounted, but I did not stay to heed or answer. I dashed the spurs into my horse, and rode away past the cross-roads, past the finger-post; away with the level upland stretching before me, dry, bare, almost treeless; and behind me, all I loved.
Presently he curled himself up like a dog and slept in the blaze, and then for a couple of hours I sat opposite him, thinking. It seemed years since I had seen Zaton's or thrown the dice. The old life, the old employments should I ever go back to them? seemed dim and distant. Would Cocheforet, the forest and the mountain, the grey Chateau and its mistresses, seem one day as dim?
'He will play me no tricks, I suppose? A letter of 'MON DIEU, no! He will understand, Cocheforet answered eagerly. 'You will not repent it. Let us be going. 'Well, but my horse? I said, somewhat taken aback by this extreme haste. 'How am I to 'We shall overtake it, he assured me. 'It will have kept the road.
'M. de Cocheforet is here, but he has already surrendered to me, and is my prisoner. 'Your prisoner? 'Certainly! I answered, facing the man with all the harshness I could muster. 'I have arrested him by virtue of the Cardinal's commission granted to me. And by virtue of the same I shall keep him. 'You will keep him? 'I shall!
I had hoped for this, for I could now keep watch, and learn at least whether Cocheforet left before morning. If he did not, I should know he was still here. If he did, I should be the better for seeing his features, and learning, perhaps, other things that might be of use to me in the future.
Of this I saw a sign at Lectoure, where the inn had but one common room and we must all dine in company. I secured for them a table by the fire, and leaving them standing by it, retired myself to a smaller one near the door. There were no other guests; which made the separation between us more marked. M. de Cocheforet seemed to feel this.
I reined in my horse as if she had struck me, and felt myself go first hot and then cold under her eyes. Then she looked another way. But I did not forget the lesson; and after that I avoided her more sedulously than before. We lay that night at Auch, and I gave M. de Cocheforet the utmost liberty, even permitting him to go out and return at his will.
He has been engaged in every Gascon plot since the late King's death, and gave more trouble last year in the Vivarais than any man twice his years. At present he is at Bosost in Spain, with other refugees, but I have learned that at frequent intervals he visits his wife at Cocheforet which is six leagues within the border. On one of these visits he must be arrested.
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