But
your disinterested warning has determined me to go to this rendezvous.
Shall I tell you what I have guessed? That this conspiracy against my
father, the details of which you would not have me learn, is some evil of
your own devising. Ah! You change colour!" she cried, pointing to my
face. Then with a laugh of disdain she left me before I had sufficiently
recovered from my amazement to bid her stay.
"Ciel!" I cried, as I watched the tall, lissom figure vanish through the
portals of the ch?teau. "Did ever God create so crass and obstinate a
thing as woman?"
It occurred to me to tell Andrea, and bid him warn her. But then she would
guess that I had prompted him. Naught remained but to lay the matter
before the Chevalier de Canaples. Already I had informed him of my fracas
with St. Auban, and of the duel that was to be fought that night, and he,
in his turn, had given me the details of his stormy interview with the
Marquis, which had culminated in St. Auban's dismissal from Canaples. I
had not hitherto deemed it necessary to alarm him with the news imparted to
me by Malpertuis, imagining that did I inform Mademoiselle that would
suffice.
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