Nothing of this, however, was visible in his face, which the younger man watched with a kind of boyish curiosity, while Colonel Lagrange regarded the ceiling with a politely repressed yawn.

"I regret," concluded Brant, as he summoned the officer of the guard, "that I shall have to deprive you of each other's company during the time you are here; but I shall see that you, separately, want for nothing in your confinement." "If this is with a view to separate interrogatory, general, I can retire now," said Lagrange, rising, with ironical politeness.
"I believe I have all the information I require," returned Brant, with undisturbed composure.

Giving the necessary orders to his subaltern, he acknowledged with equal calm the formal salutes of the two prisoners as they were led away, and returned quickly to his bedroom above.

He paused instinctively for a moment before the closed door, and listened.

There was no sound from within.