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At any rate, they will be ever so much obliged if you'll believe he is, it'll save so much trouble all around. Finally: when your ex-chauffeur what's his name ?" "Albert Dupont." "A name as unique in France as John Smith is in England ... When Albert Dupont tries to take my life, as a simple and natural act of vendetta " "You really think it was that?"
But you will need to spend money to get all these things; especially if you get them to-night, as I hope you may." "I will try, Mademoiselle." The ex-chauffeur stood hesitating, however. At last, "I hate to leave you here alone, with only a sick man, and night coming on," he said. "You need not be afraid for me," replied Agatha coldly.
The gentleman is up here under the trees," and then, for the first time in all the long ordeal, Agatha's nerves broke and her throat filled with sobs. As the ex-chauffeur came near, she reached a hand up to him, while with the other she covered her weeping eyes in shame. "Oh, I'm so glad you've come! I'm so glad you've come!" she tried to say, but it was only a whisper through her sobs.
She had no swift and sure judgment of people, and her experience of the world, short as it was, had taught her that recklessness is a costly luxury. She was meditating as to the wisest course to pursue, when the ex-chauffeur appeared. Hand wore his accustomed loose shirt and trousers without coat or waistcoat, and it seemed as if he had never known a hat.
And when, in off moments, that capable ex-chauffeur condescended to a few moments of talk and relaxation, the boy was highly gratified. "Do you think I've got anything in me?" he would inquire anxiously. And Jackson always said heartily, "Sure you have." There were times when Graham doubted himself, however.
I told Sheila I was sure you were a gentleman. Why have you been masquerading like this? Why don't you go home to the Chase?" "Oh, do come home, Everard!" echoed Lilias entreatingly. The ex-chauffeur shook his head. He was still almost too covered with confusion to admit of speech. "I didn't expect to meet you girls," he said at last.
"Monsieur of the garotte, Liane; recently the assassin of de Lorgnes; before that the ex-chauffeur of the Château de Montalais." "Albert Dupont?" "As you say, it is not a name." "The same?" Her old terror revived. "My God! what have I ever done to that one that he should seek my life?" "What had de Lorgnes?"
He always wore a khaki shirt the wrinkles of which caught the grease in black lines, like veins with black trousers, blunt-toed shoes, and a pipe, the most important part of his costume. There was the round, anxious, polite Mexican, Tony Beanno, called "Tony Bean" wealthy, simple, fond of the violin and of fast motoring. There was the "school grouch," surly Jack Ryan, the chunky ex-chauffeur.
He, with the ex-chauffeur and the ex-waiter, was marched by a corporal through a small side gate into the barrack square; and the guard, sitting on a bench by the guardhouse, honoured the newcomers with a stare. The chauffeur and the waiter got no more than a passing glance, but all eyes, especially those of the sergeant of the guard, focussed on Max.
The telephone conversation, which the girl at the hotel had overheard, between Merton and the supposed Nolan, indicated that Merton had more than a casual regard for his ex-chauffeur, or the man would not have appealed to him. Marsh's suspicions being now definitely aroused, he decided not to take a chance by showing himself in the open.
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