"Send
your friends to me to appoint the time."
"Soit!" he cried, his eyes blazing with a hate unspeakable. "At eight to-
morrow morning I shall await you on the green behind the castle of Blois."
"At eight o'clock I shall be there," I answered. "And now, gentlemen, if
you will unhand me, I will return to my apartments."
They let me go, but with many a growl and angry look, for in their eyes I
was no more than a coarse aggressor, whilst their sympathy was all for St.
Auban.
CHAPTER X
THE CONSCIENCE OF MALPERTUIS
And so back to my room I went, my task accomplished, and so pleased was I
with what had passed that as I drew on my boots--preparing to set out to
Canaples--I laughed softly to myself.
St. Auban I would dispose of in the morning. As for the other members of
the cabal, I deemed neither Vilmorin nor Malpertuis sufficiently formidable
to inspire uneasiness. St. Auban gone, they too would vanish. There
remained then Eug?ne de Canaples. Him, however, methought no great evil
was to be feared from. In Paris he might be as loud-voiced as he pleased,
but in his father's ch?teau--from what I had learned--'t was unlikely he
would so much as show himself.
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