He touched a bell and an attendant entered.
"Captain Beaumont," he said.
The man withdrew and, in a few seconds, that officer stood before him.
"You will escort Mons. St. Just in a carriage to his apartment."
He bowed to both men and they left the room. Five minutes afterwards
they quitted Malmaison and took the road to Paris.
*CHAPTER VI.*
It was hard on daybreak when St. Just reached his lodging in the Rue de
Dauphin, and the people in the house were not yet up; but the summons at
the door soon aroused them. His landlord was at first disposed to be
unfriendly, but when he saw the handsome carriage and horses, the
liveries of the coachman and footman, and the officer in uniform who had
accompanied his lodger, he made no ado about admitting him, and became
almost fulsome in his words of welcome. The belief of the worthy couple
had been that St. Just had been spending his week's absence in the
country; and they had been confirmed in it by a beautiful lady who had
driven up in a carriage and told them that it was so. She had also
interviewed his servant Mahmoud, whom it appeared, she knew, and had
taken him away with her.
Before going she had left a note for St. Just; and this was all they had
to tell him.