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Updated: September 12, 2025
At the fall of the curtain he had made several inquiries of the officers, but nobody could give him any information. They were complete strangers that was all. Even a search among the cards of invitation had revealed nothing. So Paul Le Pontois remained mystified. Enid came at last, flushed with success and apologetic because she had kept him waiting.
Louis was sent down to the east to govern Dauphiny; the lessons of the civil war were not lost on Charles; he crushed the freebooters of Champagne, drove the English out of Pontois in 1441, moved actively up and down France, reducing anarchy, restoring order, resisting English attacks. In the last he was loyally supported by the Dauphin, who was glad to find a field for his restless temper.
AT the same hour when Enid and Sir Hugh were passing Amanvilliers, once the scene of terrible atrocities by the Huns, Paul Le Pontois, between two agents of police, was ushered into the private cabinet where, at the great writing-table near the window, sat a short man with bristling hair and snow-white moustache, Monsieur Henri Bézard, chief of the Sûreté Générale.
You have always preserved silence up to the present, therefore I should believe that in this case silence was still golden." "And you suggest that I stand calmly by and see Le Pontois sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for a crime which he has not committed, eh?" "I don't suggest anything, my dear Sir Hugh," was the man's reply; "I leave it all to your good judgment."
"You have demanded to know the charges laid against you, and I have detailed them," replied the chief of the Sûreté, regarding the prisoner closely through his gold pince-nez. "They are false every word of them," promptly returned Le Pontois. "I have no acquaintance with any banknote forger. If I had, he would quickly find himself under arrest." The four men seated in his vicinity smiled grimly.
Then he conceived a dastardly revenge by anonymously denouncing Le Pontois as a forger, and implicating both Enid and myself. He contrived that some money I brought from England should be exchanged for spurious notes, and these Paul unsuspiciously gave into the Crédit Lyonnais. Had it not been for your timely warning, Fetherston, we should both have also been arrested in France without a doubt."
Walter had impressed upon her the desirability of not entering France without, however, giving any plain reason. He left her to guess. Through secret sources in Paris he had learnt how poor Paul Le Pontois was still awaiting trial.
For a few minutes Le Pontois stood chatting to a group of men at the door. They had invited him to come across to their quarters, but he had explained that he was awaiting mademoiselle. So they raised their eyebrows, smiled mischievously, and bade him "bon soir." Soldiers were already stacking up the chairs ready for the clearance of the gymnasium for the morrow.
Every mètre they trod was historic ground ground which had been contested against the legions of the Crown Prince's army. For some time neither spoke. At last Walter asked: "Your stepfather has been up to the fortress with Monsieur Le Pontois, I suppose?" "Yes, once or twice," was her reply, eager to change the subject.
If she put foot in France she would, he knew, be at once placed under arrest as an accomplice of Paul Le Pontois. When Weirmarsh took revenge he always did his work well. No doubt the French police were already at Calais awaiting her arrival. "I would change the route," he suggested. "Go by Ostend, Strasburg and Milan." "Mrs. Caldwell has already taken our tickets," she said.
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