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At the end of the second act, however, Lissac suddenly caught sight of Vaudrey's smiling countenance beside Granet's waxed moustaches in the manager's box. "Ah!" he exclaimed, "there is Vaudrey!" Madame Marsy, however, had already caught sight of him.
There were a couple of officers, friends of Granet's, back from the Front on leave; Lady Conyers, with Geraldine and Olive; Granet himself; and a tall, dark girl with pallid complexion and brilliant eyes, who had come with Lady Anselman and who was standing now by her side. "I suppose you know everybody, my dear?" Lady Anselman asked her genially. The girl shook her head a little disconsolately.
Captain Chalmers, is it not?" he went on. "You must tell your men to double and redouble their energies. This place is worth watching now. Come, I will show you something amazing." He turned and led them hastily towards the back door. Isabel gripped Granet's arm. "He thinks you are the officer in command of the platoon here," she whispered. "Better let him go on thinking so." Granet nodded.
The latter was seated before the wide-open window. He had blown out his candle and the room was in darkness. He half turned his head at Granet's entrance. "Two minutes!" he exclaimed softly. "Granet, it will be to-night. Are you ready?" "Absolutely!" They stood by the open window in silence. Nothing had changed. It was not yet time for the singing of the earliest birds.
Imitate him, my dear minister, to the latest possible moment." Sulpice made an effort to smile at Granet's pleasantry. This cunning fellow decidedly displeased him; but there was nothing to take offence at, it was mere diplomatic pleasantry expressed politely. Before returning to the ministry, Vaudrey had himself driven to Rue Prony.
Every one in the Dormy House was sound asleep. He made his way back to his own apartment without difficulty. Only the little man remained seated at the window, with his eyes fixed upon the bank of murky clouds which lowered over the sea. Isabel Worth leaned back in the comfortable seat by Granet's side and breathed a little sigh of content.
And if I should never set my foot in this place again," he thought, as he remembered Granet's interpellation, "what would it matter to me?" He was informed first at the Council and then at the Chamber, that Granet would not introduce his question until the next day. Vaudrey had the desired time to prepare himself.
A destroyer brought him across, and a Government motor-car was waiting at the quay to rush him up to the Front. We all thought at Boulogne that royalty was coming, at least." There was a slight frown on Granet's forehead. He glanced half unconsciously towards Geraldine. "Mysterious sort of fellow, Thomson," Major Harrison continued, in blissful ignorance of the peculiar significance of his words.
"I think that Granet's death in exactly that fashion was the best thing that could possibly have happened for him and for all of us." She shivered as she looked at him. "Aren't you a little cruel?" she murmured. "I am not cruel at all," he assured her firmly. "Let me quote the words of a greater man 'I have no enemies but the enemies of my country, and for them I have no mercy."
"Mother," she announced, "I am not engaged to Major Thomson any more." The Admiral laid down his newspaper. "Damned good job, too!" he declared. "That young fellow Granet's worth a dozen of him. Never could stick an Army Medical. Well, well! How did he take it?" Lady Conyers watched her daughter searchingly. Then she shook her head. "I hope you have done wisely, dear," she said.
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