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de La Tour
d'Azyr on my behalf."
"Since you insist, and as time presses, I consent. And now ride on
with me as far as the lane. There is that carriage coming up."
The lane to which she referred was one that branched off the road
some three hundred yards nearer the village and led straight up the
hill to the chateau itself. In silence they rode together towards
it, and together they turned into that thickly hedged and narrow
bypath. At a depth of fifty yards she halted him.
"Now!" she bade him.
Obediently he swung down from his horse, and surrendered the reins
to her.
"Aline," he said, "I haven't words in which to thank you."
"It isn't necessary," said she.
"But I shall hope to repay you some day."
"Nor is that necessary. Could I do less than I am doing? I do not
want to hear of you hanged, Andre; nor does my uncle, though he is
very angry with you."
"I suppose he is."
"And you can hardly be surprised. You were his delegate, his
representative. He depended upon you, and you have turned your coat.


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