Of
course the minute I heard her name I knew what she was crossing for."
The dickens he did! "All I had to do was to follow her, and by the time
we reached Bleau I had guessed enough to come ahead of her. But I'll
admit, Mr. Bayne, now it's all over, it made me nervous to have you
popping up at every turn! I began to think that you suspected me--that
you were trailing me. If you had, you know, I shouldn't have stood a
chance on earth. You could have said a word to the first gendarme you
met and had me laid by the heels and ended it. That was why I kept
warning you off. But I needn't have worried. You drank in everything I
told you as innocent as a babe!"
If he wanted revenge for my last remark, he had it. I looked at the
girl beside me, so watchfully composed and fearless, then at the
fixed, terrified glare of the motionless Marie-Jeanne. With a little
rudimentary intelligence on my part this situation would have been
spared us.
"Yes," I acknowledged bitterly; "I did."
"Except for that," he grinned, "it went like clockwork. There wasn't
even enough danger in the thing to give it spice.
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