The officer hesitated a moment and then decided—
“I’ll search for myself and trust my own eyes this time.”
“It’s all one to me,” answered Dubois with a shrug.
Three men were called on to accompany the officer, and all four were leaving the room, when Gerard, who had heard what had passed, met him at the door.
“Ah!” was the officer’s significant exclamation at sight of him, “as I thought,” and he turned with a smile of triumph to Dubois.
But the smile died away instantly.
Dubois was standing before the door with his drawn sword in his hand.
It was he who smiled now, and a grim, significant, dangerous smile it was.
CHAPTER XXVIII
A RISING AND ITS SEQUEL
THE officer stared with growing anger, first at Dubois, then back at Gerard, and lastly at the four of his men who had moved away and left him and the one Castle soldier alone in the middle of the room.