CHAPTER II
Off to the Front
He stood quite still for fully five minutes to make sure that they had really gone, and then he stole with catlike tread over the noiseless carpet, and, opening the door, listened again.
The billiard-room was at the opposite end of the vestibule, and, closing the door gently behind him, he switched on the electric light, which revealed Mademoiselle Van Drissel evidently waiting for him.
"What have you learned, Anton?" she whispered in German.
"I have learned everything, my little wife," he replied. "We leave this house to-morrow, as soon as those two fools have gone to catch their boat-train."
"Zo!" she exclaimed, clasping her hands. "I, for one, shall be delighted. I shall have but one regret."
"And what is that, Ottilie?" inquired her husband.