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I am an English lady, belonging to one of the proudest families in the country. The British Embassy, the British nation, will call you to the strictest account." "Ta! ta! ta!" said the judge, with a gesture of the hand essentially French; "I think you are slightly mistaken; you are no more English than I am. I know you, and all about you, Cyprienne Vergette otherwise Gascoigne, otherwise Wilders.
"Well, comrade," replied Hyde, laughing a little uneasily, "you ought to know me again." "Lose no time, friend, in getting what you want from the Mairie. Come: I will go with you. Come: you may be prevented if you delay." These words aroused Hyde's suspicions. Had Cyprienne warned the French police to be on the look-out for him? "But, Anatole, explain.
"Cyprienne she can, and must, manage this." He proceeded to put back the papers into the secret drawer; he replaced the volume on the shelf, and, taking the telegram he had written in his hand, left the office, carefully locking the door behind him. Hailing a cab, he was driven first to a telegraph-station, where he sent off his despatch, only adding the words:
And she looked capable of taking his life then and there. "Come, come! Cyprienne; you are going too far. Mr. Gascoigne has not behaved very well, perhaps, but it is not for us to call him to account. We will leave him to the myrmidons of the law. He is wanted, we know, by the police." "Am I?" said Hyde, mockingly; "so are others, as you will find. At this moment the house is surrounded.
She has been very kind, you know," she went on to Colonel Wilders, who had taken Lydstone's seat by her side. "But for her I should have starved." "Dear me! how sad," said the colonel. "Was it so bad as that? How did it happen. Was M. Cyprienne unlucky?" She did not answer; and the colonel, wondering, looked up, to find her fine eyes filled with tears. "How stupid of me! What an idiot I am!
"It is quite evident," he said to himself, "that Cyprienne has tried to turn the tables on me. I was too open with her. It was incautious of me to show my hand so soon. Of course the police have been set upon me the accused and still unjudged perpetrator of the crime in Tinplate Street by her. But has she acted alone in this? "I doubt it.
"Rupert is dead. He died was drowned when " "You deserted him, and left him, you and your vile partner, falsely accused of a foul crime." "I cannot will not believe it. You are an impostor; you have assumed a dead man's name." "My identity is easily proved, Cyprienne Vergette, and the relation in which I stand to you." "What brings you here to vex me, after all these years? I always hated you.
"Of course, of course!" said the colonel, although, as a matter of fact, he did not know Spanish point from common écru. "This was some lace that had been in our family for generations. You must understand we were not always as you see me poor; we belong to the old nobility. My husband was highly born, but when he died I dropped the title and became Madame Cyprienne.
But he laughed within himself at the thought that he had already outwitted both Cyprienne and her accomplice, and that, wherever he was, a prisoner or at large, events would work out her discomfiture without him. He had no fears for himself. They had promised him at the British Embassy that he should be sought out if he did not reappear within three days.
Mr. " he referred to his papers for the name "McKay is safe within the British lines. The agent you employed to inveigle him into danger is dead, but with his last breath he confessed that he had had his orders from you. Now, Cyprienne Vergette, what have you to say?" "I deny everything. I protest against your jurisdiction." "The Assize Court will hear, but scarcely admit, your plea.
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