"
"If we could obtain fresh horses--" began the sergeant, when he of the mask
interrupted him.
"Sangdieu! Think you my purse is bottomless? We return as we came, with
the Cardinal's horses. What signify a day or two, after all? Come--call
the landlord to light me to my room."
I had heard enough. But more than that, whilst I listened, an idea had of
a sudden sprung up in my mind which did away with the necessity of gaining
speech with Montresor--a contingency, moreover, that now presented
insuperable difficulties.
So I got down softly from my perch and made my way out of the yard, and,
after fulfilling my part of the bargain with Ren?, across to the Vigne d'Or
and to my room, there to sit and mature the plan that of a sudden I had
conceived.
CHAPTER XXIV
OF THE PASSING OF ST. AUBAN
Dame! What an ado there was next day in Blois, when the news came that the
troopers had installed themselves at the Ch?teau de Canaples and that the
Chevalier had been arrested for treason by order of the Lord Cardinal, and
that he would be taken to Paris, and--probably--the scaffold.
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