3667. Alexis was removed from his cell late in the morning
of Tuesday, when the faculty, staff and students returned to the school. It was
just luck that they found him there in the cell, because everyone had forgotten
about him altogether. If a few weeks had gone by he surely would have died, but
as luck would have it, one of the cadets had to be locked in the detention room
because of an entire weekend of riotous behavior.
3668. You can be sure that the staff, when they found him in
the room unconscious, apologized to him profusely, fed his a good meal, and
even sent him home in a carriage. Meanwhile, a curious event transpired during those
three days, at the residence of the Minister and his wife who employed the boy
as the door opener of their equipage.
3669. When the minister and his wife arrived home after the
long meeting at the Ministry of Financial affairs, the wife, whose name
happened to be Harriett, noticed at once that it was not her attendant that
opened the door when they arrived at their estate. They visited their estate in
the country only in the summer during the heat of July and August. The day
Alexis disappeared from his post was the first day of their summer vacation.
3670. At first Harriett made only a passing inquiry about
the boy and concealed her anxiety about him. But the next day she became quite
agitated and when her husband asked her what was wrong she said she thought she
was coming down with “La Grippe,” a fashionable illness like a cold, going the
rounds of the aristocracy because of its French origins.
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