14/18 I commit to you my wife and daughter. No news must be taken as good news." Dumay, always subordinate, asked no questions of his colonel. "I think," he said to Latournelle with a knowing little glance, "that my colonel has a plan laid out." The following day at dawn he accompanied his master on board the "Modeste" bound for Constantinople. There, on the poop of the vessel, the Breton said to the Provencal,-- "What are your last commands, my colonel ?" "That no man shall enter the Chalet," cried the father with strong emotion. |