"It certainly did."
"And if you should meet Monsieur Chauvenet, who caused the trouble--"
"I have every intention of meeting him!"
"Oh!"
"Of course, I shall meet him--some time, somewhere. He's at the Springs,
isn't he?"
"Am I a hotel register that I should know? I haven't seen him for several
days."
"What I should like to see," said Dick, "is a meeting between Armitage
and Chauvenet. That would really be entertaining. No doubt Chauvenet
could whip your mysterious suitor."
He looked away, with an air of unconcern, at the deepening shadows on the
mountains.
"Dear Dick, I am quite sure that if you have been chosen out of all the
United States army to find Mr. John Armitage, you will succeed without
any help from me."
"That doesn't answer my question. You don't know what you are doing. What
if father knew that you were seeing this adventurer--"
"Oh, of course, if you should tell father! I haven't said that I had seen
Mr. Armitage; and you haven't exactly told me that you have a warrant for
his arrest; so we are quits, Captain. You had better look in at the
hotel dance to-night.
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