Of course, he knew about the recovery of the Eagle, but that was all.

He had known nothing about the midnight meeting.

The Countess Laure had taken him into her service, her uncle being willing.

And he had spent a miserable day when not with her, wondering and hoping and praying for Marteau.

With others in the regiments he had received important news in the last hour, and had made every effort to get it to Marteau, as had been suggested to him, but he had hitherto failed.