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As for how I came to know your whereabouts, by an odd enough chance, it is again M. Alain we have to thank. I should tell you, he has for some time made it his business to keep M. de Kéroual informed of your career; with what purpose I leave you to judge.
Sheepshanks began, eager to seize the opening presented. "The fact is, I'm a married man." "Already at two points you have the advantage of us. Proceed, sir." "You were good enough, just now, to give me your name, Mr. "The Vicomte Anne de Kéroual de Saint-Yves." "It is a somewhat difficult name to remember."
He conned me curiously. "You don't look like a Britisher, either." "I trust not. I am the Viscount Anne de Kéroual de Saint-Yves, escaped from a British war-prison." "Lucky for you if you prove it. We'll get to the bottom of this." He faced about and called, "Who's the first officer of this brig?" Reuben Colenso was allowed to step forward.
Miss Flora, suffer me to present to you the Vicomte Anne de Keroual de Saint-Yves, a private soldier. 'I knew it! cried the boy; 'I knew he was a noble! And I thought the eyes of Miss Flora said the same, but more persuasively. All through this interview she kept them on the ground, or only gave them to me for a moment at a time, and with a serious sweetness.
'What! I cried, 'does M. de Keroual de St.-Yves remember the existence of such a person as myself, and will he deign to count kinship with a soldier of Napoleon? 'You speak English well, observed my visitor.
I cried, "does M. de Kéroual de Saint-Yves remember the existence of such a person as myself, and will he deign to count kinship with a soldier of Napoleon?" "You speak English well," observed my visitor. "It has been a second language to me from a child," said I. "I had an English nurse; my father spoke English with me; and I was finished by a countryman of yours and a dear friend of mine, a Mr.
Vicary." A strong expression of interest came into the lawyer's face. "What!" he cried, "you knew poor Vicary?" "For more than a year," said I; "and shared his hiding-place for many months." "And I was his clerk, and have succeeded him in business," said he. "Excellent man! It was on the affairs of M. de Kéroual that he went to that accursed country, from which he was never destined to return.
At this altitude one shank was more than we had a right to expect: the plural multiplies the obligation." Keeping a tight hold on his hysteria, Dalmahoy steadied himself by a rope and bowed. "And I, sir," as Mr. Sheepshanks' thoroughly bewildered gaze travelled around and met mine "I, sir, am the Vicomte Anne de Kéroual de Saint-Yves, at your service.
To do M. de Kéroual justice, he took it in the best way imaginable, destroyed the evidences of the one great-nephew's disgrace and transferred his interest wholly to the other." "What am I to understand by that?" said I. "I will tell you," says he. "There is a remarkable inconsistency in human nature which gentlemen of my cloth have a great deal of occasion to observe.
'And I was his clerk, and have succeeded him in business, said he. 'Excellent man! It was on the affairs of M. de Keroual that he went to that accursed country, from which he was never destined to return. Do you chance to know his end, sir? 'I am sorry, said I, 'I do. He perished miserably at the hands of a gang of banditti, such as we call chauffeurs.
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