"Come out with me, I tell you. Do you think I am fool enough to talk under these walls?"
As they stepped out on the square they saw Fanfar, but Fanfar did not notice these two shadows. He entered the inn and Caillette threw herself into his arms, sobbing with joy.
"I am glad to see you," muttered Schwann, half ashamed of his own emotion.
In the silence that followed, the voice of La Roulante was heard singing while drowning her sorrows in a bottle of brandy.
CHAPTER XXI.
THE GRATITUDE OF A MARQUIS.
After the departure of the two strangers, who, it will be understood, now renounced their trip for Rémisemont, Gudel remained very pensive. He said to himself that after all he had no right to imperil the future of Fanfar and to have made that promise for him. He began to feel very uneasy at the long absence of the young man. There was a knock at the door.
"Come in," called Iron Jaws.