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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.
"I laid out those things in case there was anything doing," he said. "As I told you, I felt sure that I had heard an airship earlier in the evening, and I meant to try and follow it if I heard it again." There was a brief silence. Granet lounged a little back in his chair, but though his air of indifference was perfect, a sickening foreboding was creeping in upon him.
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.
And then there came another sound, hideous, sickly, a sound Granet had heard before, the sound of a rifle bullet cutting its way through flesh, followed by an inhuman cry. For a moment Collins' arms whirled around him. Then, with no other sound save that one cry, he fell forward and disappeared. For a single second Granet leaned over the side of the boat as though to dive after him.
I am waiting for the Granet ministry! was the consolatory reflection, interrupted by sighs, of the licentiates in law. Meanwhile those office-seekers danced attendance on Granet, and their smile was worth to the future Excellency all the sweets of office.
"When you are wanting a civil job, Major Thomson," he concluded, "come and give us a call. Good morning!" "A lady to see you, sir," Jarvis announced discreetly. Granet turned quickly around in his chair. Almost instinctively he pulled down the roll top of the desk before which he was seated. Then he rose to his feet and held out his hand.
He asked for an interview this afternoon." "Have him in, if you don't mind," the other suggested. "I can sit at the empty desk over there. I can be making some calculations with reference to the number of hospital beds for each transport. I want to hear him talk to you." The General nodded and touched a bell. "You can show Captain Granet in," he told the boy scout who answered it.
"I shall be very disappointed if I don't get out to the Front again soon, sir," the young man declared simply. "I'll do the best I can," the General repeated, touching his bell. Granet was shown out and the door was closed. General Brice turned towards his companion. "Thomson," he said, "frankly, I can't believe it. However, we'll find him a billet where he can't possibly do any mischief."
He himself left the Park at the same time, strolled along Piccadilly as far as Sackville Street and let himself into his rooms. His servant came forward to meet him from the inner room, and took his cap and stick. "Any telephone messages, Jarvis?" "Nothing, sir." Granet moved towards the easy-chair. On the way he stopped. The door of one of the cupboards in the sideboard was half open. He frowned.
"Captain Granet is showing great consideration for your comfort and safety," Thomson remarked. Granet for a moment forgot himself. His eyes flashed. He was half angry, half terrified. "What do you mean?" he demanded. Thomson made no immediate answer. He seemed to be pondering over his words, his expression was inscrutable. Geraldine looked from one to the other.
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