Nothing of this,
however, was visible in his face, which the younger man watched with a
kind of boyish curiosity, while Colonel Lagrange regarded the ceiling
with a politely repressed yawn. "I regret," concluded Brant, as he
summoned the officer of the guard, "that I shall have to deprive you of
each other's company during the time you are here; but I shall see that
you, separately, want for nothing in your confinement."
"If this is with a view to separate interrogatory, general, I can retire
now," said Lagrange, rising, with ironical politeness.
"I believe I have all the information I require," returned Brant, with
undisturbed composure. Giving the necessary orders to his subaltern, he
acknowledged with equal calm the formal salutes of the two prisoners as
they were led away, and returned quickly to his bedroom above. He paused
instinctively for a moment before the closed door, and listened. There
was no sound from within. He unlocked the door, and opened it.
So quiet was the interior that for an instant, without glancing at
the bed, he cast a quick look at the window, which, till then, he had
forgotten, and which he remembered gave upon the veranda roof. But it
was still closed, and as he approached the bed, he saw his wife still
lying there, in the attitude in which he had left her.
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