But Gautran lingered still. "You promised me some more brandy, master."
The Advocate filled the glass, and Gautran, with fierce eagerness, drank the brandy.
"You will not give me another glass, master?"
"No, murderer. I have spoken my last word to you."
Gautran spoke no more, but with head sunk upon his breast, left the room and the house.
"A vulgar expedient," mused the Advocate, when he was alone, "but the only one likely to prove effective with such a monster. It is perhaps best that it has happened. This man watching upon the hill is none other than John Vanbrugh. I had almost forgotten him. He does not come in friendship. Let him watch and wait. I will not see him."
CHAPTER XVI
[PIERRE LAMONT SEEKS THE HOSPITALITY OF THE HOUSE OF WHITE SHADOWS.]
The following day Pierre Lamont did not leave his bed, and was visited in his room by the Advocate and Christian Almer. To the Advocate he said:
"I trust I shall not incommode you, for I am compelled to throw myself upon your hospitality."