"Damn and blast it!" roared Vorski. "He's cheated us, the ruffian! But why, hang it, why?"
Venting his rage in the stupid fashion that was his habit, he was stamping on the piece of stuff, when a thought struck him:
"Why? Because, damn it, as I said just now, it's a trap: a trap to get us away from her ladyship while his friends went for Otto! Oh, what an ass I've been!"
He started to go back in the dark and, as soon as he was able to see the dolmen, he called out:
"Otto! Otto!"
"Halt! Who goes there?" answered Otto, in a scared voice.
"It's me . . . . Damn you, don't fire!"
"Who's there? You?"
"Yes, yes, you fool."
"But the two shots?"