Valmond was about to follow her.
"Thank you, no; I will go to my carrriage alone," she said, and he did
not insist.
When she had gone he stood holding the door open, and looking at De la
Riviere. He was very pale; there was a menacing fire in his eyes. The
young Seigneur was ready for battle also.
"I am occupied, monsieur," said Valmond meaningly.
"I have come to warn you--"
"The old song; I am occupied, monsieur."
"Charlatan!" said De la Riviere, and took a step angrily towards him, for
he was losing command of himself.
At that moment Parpon, who had been outside in the hall for a half-hour
or more, stepped into the room, edged between the two, and looked up with
a wicked, mocking leer at the young Seigneur.
"You have twenty-four hours to leave Pontiac," cried De la Riviere, as he
left the room.
"My watch keeps different time, monsieur," said Valmond coolly, and
closed the door.
CHAPTER XVI
From the depths where Elise was cast, it was not for her to see that her
disaster had brought light to others; that out of the pitiful confusion
of her life had come order and joy. A half-mad woman, without memory,
knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and
happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her
poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son.
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