17/35 "To score his back too----" "Were nothing for the offence! Nothing! As you would say if you knew it," Blondel panted. What is it he has done ?" "He has left undone that which he was ordered to do," Blondel answered more soberly than he had yet spoken. He had recovered something of his power to reason. But for his default we should at this moment be in a position to seize Basterga." "Ay ?" "Ay, and to seize him with proof of his guilt! Proof and to spare." "But I could not know," Louis whimpered. |