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He said "Koupriane," and at once a hand seized his and pressed it. The night had become black again. He murmured: "How is it you are here in person?" The Prefect of Police whispered in his ear: "I have been informed that something will happen to-night. Natacha went to Krestowsky and exchanged some words with Annouchka there. Prince Galitch is involved, and it is an affair of State."
As to them, whatever happens, I wash my hands of them." And he rubbed his hands. At the door of the Krestowsky Rouletabille, who was in a hurry for a conveyance, jumped into an open carriage where la belle Onoto was already seated. The dancer caught him on her knees. "To Eliaguine, fast as you can," cried the reporter for all explanation. "Scan! Scan!
She will take such extra precautions that the others will be instantly warned." "I have told her she should not go to the ground-floor at all this night, and that she must not leave the general's chamber." "That is perfect, if she will obey you." "You see I have profited by all your information. I have followed your instructions. The road from the Krestowsky is under surveillance."
He didn't take more than two steps in the second. In the third, which cut obliquely toward the right and seemed to run to the bank nearest Krestowsky Ostrow, she saw him advance slowly at first, then more quickly among the small trees and hedges.
You, too, Matrena Petrovna. Go away!" They disappeared, terrified by his savage gesture. In the little datcha across the river at Krestowsky there was a body. Secret Service agents guarded it while they waited for their chief. Michael Nikolaievitch had come there to die, and the police had reached him just at his last breath.
He paid the coachman and the interpreter, and lunched at the Brasserie de Vienne nearby. He left there a half-hour later, much calmer. He took his way to the Grand Morskaia Hotel, went inside and asked the schwitzar: "Can you give me the address of Mademoiselle Annouchka?" "The singer of the Krestowsky?" "That is who I mean." "She had luncheon here. She has just gone away with the prince."
His eyes burned somberly, in spite of the panic that deformed his features Rouletabille recognized one of the unintroduced friends whom Gounsovski had brought with him to the supper at Krestowsky. Evidently since then the always-threatening misfortune had fallen upon him. They were proceeding with his trial. The one who seemed to preside over these strange sessions pronounced a name: "Annouchka!"
From that villa a person could see the window of the sitting-room in General Trebassof's residence, but not what might occur along the bank of the river just below its walls. An isvotchick drove along the distant route of Krestowsky, conveying in his carriage a company of young officers and young women who had been feasting and who sang as they rode; then deep silence ensued.
Natacha hasn't been able to hold herself in since she read that Annouchka was going to make her debut at Krestowsky. She said she wasn't going to die without having seen the great artist." "Her father had almost drawn her away from that crowd," affirmed Ivan, "and that was as it should be. She must have fixed up this affair with Boris and his parents."
Was it for Annouchka to return for a luncheon or dinner in that place that she sometimes frequented? And did he at the same time keep watch upon Annouchka's apartments just across the way? If that was so, he could only bewail his luck, for Annouchka did not appear either at her apartments or the hotel, or at the Krestowsky establishment, which had been obliged to suppress her performance.
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