And well was it for him that pride should have detained him; well would it seem as if his luck were indeed in the ascendant and had prompted his pride to save him from a deadly peril.

For suddenly some one called "Battista!" He heard, but for the moment, absorbed as he was in his own musings, he overlooked the fact that it was the name to which he answered at Condillac.
Not until it was repeated more loudly, and imperatively, did he turn to see Fortunio beckoning him.

With a sudden dread anxiety, he stepped to the captain's side.

Was he discovered?
But Fortunio's words set his doubts to rest at once.
"You are to re-conduct Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye to her apartments at once." Garnache bowed and followed the captain up the steps and into the chateau that he might carry out the order; and as he went he shrewdly guessed that it was the arrival of that courier had occasioned the sudden removal of mademoiselle.
When they were alone together--he and she--in her anteroom in the Northern Tower, she turned to him before he had time to question her as he was intending.
"A courier has arrived," said she.
"I know; I saw him in the courtyard.

Whence is he?
Did you learn it ?" "From Florimond." She was white with agitation.
"From the Marquis de Condillac ?" he cried, and he knew not whether to hope or fear.