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In a few minutes de Vasselot stepped ashore. The abbe was waiting for him at the steps. It was almost dark, but de Vasselot could see the priest's black eyes flashing with some new excitement. De Vasselot held out his hand, but Susini made a movement, of which the new-comer recognized the significance in his quick way. He took a step forward, and they embraced after the manner of the French.
She turned and went down that historic road, showing now, as ever, a steady and courageous face to the world, though all who spoke to her stabbed her with the words, "There is no cavalry left no cavalry left, ma bonne dame." She hovered about Donchery and Sedan, and the ruins of Bazeilles, for some days, and made sure that Lory de Vasselot had not gone, a prisoner, to Germany.
She should not run away at all events. He twisted the soft material round his half-disabled fingers. "What story?" he asked quietly. Denise's eyes flashed, and then suddenly grew gentle. She did not quite know whether she was furious or afraid. "That there was some one in the Chateau de Vasselot to whom whom you loved."
And Lory de Vasselot found himself face to face with that question which so many have with them all through life: the question whether at a certain point in the crooked road of life he took the wrong or right turning. Death itself had no particular terror for de Vasselot. It was his trade, and it is easier to become familiar with death than with suffering.
"But, if you like, I will write to the Count de Vasselot," said Denise, in the voice of one making a concession. Mademoiselle Brun thought deeply before replying. It is so easy to take a wrong turning at the cross-roads of life, and assuredly Denise stood at a carrefour now. "Yes," said mademoiselle at length; "it would be well to do that."
The other Denise was clear-eyed, logical, almost cold, who resented any mention of Corsica or of the war. Indeed, de Vasselot had seen her face harden at some laughing reference made by him to his approaching recovery.
"War," he answered, with a laugh, pausing for a moment on the threshold. And three days later Lory de Vasselot stood on the deck of a small trading steamer that rolled sideways into Calvi Bay, on the shoulder, as it were, of one of those March mistrals which serve as the last kick of the dying winter.
He apologized, as it were, for justice, of which he made himself the representative in that room. Then he turned towards de Vasselot. "Monsieur is well within his rights " he said, significantly, " if he insist on them." "I insist on them," replied Lory, who was proud of Denise's pride. And Denise laughed. The notary turned and looked curiously at her. "Mademoiselle is able to be amused."
Mademoiselle gave an odd laugh. "It is the boundary-line between Perucca and Vasselot," she said, "that has fallen into the valley." Denise was thinking the same thought, and made no answer. The footpath from the chateau up to the Casa by which Gilbert had come on the day of Mattei Perucca's death, by which he had also ridden to the chateau one day, was completely obliterated.
His white hair fluttered in the wind. There was time for another shot. Lory took a longer aim, remembering to fire low, and horse and rider suddenly dropped behind the low wall of the upper road. De Vasselot rode on. "It was the horse it must have been the horse," he said to himself, with misgiving in his heart. He turned the corner at a gallop.
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