"I want your mistress up in the great hall! Go summon her at once,"
repeated the Intendant.
The housekeeper courtesied, but pressed her lips together as if to
prevent them from speaking in remonstrance. She went at once on her
ungracious errand.
CHAPTER VIII.
CAROLINE DE ST. CASTIN.
Dame Tremblay entered the suite of apartments and returned in a few
moments, saying that her lady was not there, but had gone down to
the secret chamber, to be, she supposed, more out of hearing of the
noise, which had disturbed her so much.
"I will go find her then," replied the Intendant; "you may return to
your own room, dame."
He walked across the drawing-room to one of the gorgeous panels that
decorated the wall, and touched a hidden spring. A door flew open,
disclosing a stair heavily carpeted that led down to the huge
vaulted foundations of the Chateau.
He descended the stair with hasty though unsteady steps. It led to
a spacious room, lighted with a gorgeous lamp that hung pendant in
silver chains from the frescoed ceiling.
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