Hofferman nodded.
"All will go well, be sure of it. I know you take your work seriously.... We have excellent reports of you—you are married, are you not?"
Muller nodded in the affirmative.
"Excellent!" declared the colonel. Pointing a threatening finger at Muller.
"You know our standing orders here! Many acquaintances—very few intimates: no mistress."
The colonel did not remain alone in his office long. He sent for Lieutenant de Loubersac. With a soldier's punctuality he appeared before his chief. He was in uniform.
"Nothing unusual this morning, Loubersac?" questioned Hofferman, gazing complacently at the soldier, superb in his magnificent uniform, an elegant and splendid specimen of a cavalry officer.
"Nothing, Colonel. The arrival of the King of Greece has been perfectly carried out."
"The crowd?"
"Oh, indifferent on the whole; come to have a look at him out of curiosity."