human
Where is that fiend in human shape who calls himself Colonel Calembours?
gpt
I cannot tell, replied St. Udo.
human
He has played the traitor to the North; he must be with Lee's army.
gpt
He has played the traitor to _me_, and to that boy, _his son_! she exclaimed, vengefully.
human
He has deserted us for eighteen years, and now my boy is dying. He threw me back among the flames three months ago in Colonel Estvan's house as soon as he recognized in me _his wife_. Oh! can such a monster escape justice?
gpt
Did you come here to-day expecting to find Colonel Calembours?
human
I did. I have just come from a sickroom, which my terror drove me to after my servants had rescued me from being consumed in the flames which destroyed my only home. I hear that Monsieur Estvan was killed, and I searched in every hospital in Richmond, and every jail, for some tidings of the monster in case he might have been captured. Now, alas! I find my son in the agonies of death.