'It will have kept the
road. Lectoure is no more than a league from here, and we can
give orders there to have these two fetched and buried.'
I had nothing to gain by demurring, and so, after another word or
two, it was arranged. We picked up what we had dropped, M. de
Cocheforet helped his sister to mount, and within five minutes we
were gone. Casting a glance back from the skirts of the wood I
fancied that I saw the masked man straighten himself and turn to
look after us, but the leaves were beginning to intervene, the
distance may have cheated me. And yet I was not indisposed to
think the unknown a trifle more observant, and a little less
seriously hurt, than he seemed.
CHAPTER XIII
AT THE FINGER-POST
Through all, it will have been noticed, Mademoiselle had not
spoken to me, nor said one word, good or bad. She had played her
part grimly, had taken defeat in silence if with tears, had tried
neither prayer nor defence nor apology. And the fact that the
fight was now over, and the scene left behind, made no difference
in her conduct. She kept her face studiously turned from me, and
affected to ignore my presence.
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