Her lips trembled for all her bravery as she looked again at Michael.
"What has happened to Morice?" she whispered piteously.
But Michael, much as he longed to comfort her, could find no answer to the question.
CHAPTER XXII
COUNT JEHAN IS NOT CONVINCED
Monsieur de Quernais was certainly in a hurry; so much so that he had lost his temper, and been in too great a haste to recover it again.
There had been reasons enough to disturb a less irritable nature.
To begin with, the failure of his mission had been bitter. Most bitter of all, seeing the trickery played on him by his own cousin, a Varenac and a traitor!
The English blood must be held accountable, of course, but even then he could not bear to think of it.