His general had sent him to maintain the contact with the next division, but finding himself near the castle, he had wished to visit it.

A family tie was not a mere word.

He still remembered the days that he had spent at Villeblanche when the Hartrott family had paid a long visit to their relatives in France.

The officials now occupying the edifice had detained him that he might lunch with them.

One of them had casually mentioned that the owner of the castle was somewhere about although nobody knew exactly where.