"'To the devil with your paper!'

"'Your excellence then has no paper?'

"'No.'

"'In that case, your excellence now will sleep at Empoli!'

"In a few minutes afterwards the prince found himself driven
under a kind of archway. It was a coach-house belonging to an
inn. On his expressing surprise at being driven into this sort
of place, and repeating his determination to proceed to
Florence, the coachman said, that, at all events, he must
change his horses; and that this was the most convenient place
for so doing. In fact, he took out his horses, and led them
away.

"After waiting some time for his return, the prince called to
Frantz, and bade him open the door of this coach-house, and
bring somebody.

"Frantz obeyed, but found the door shut--fastened.

"On hearing that they were shut in, the prince started from the
carriage, shook the gates with all his might, called out
lustily, and looked about, but in vain, for some paving stone
with which to batter them open.

"Now the prince was a man of admirable good sense; so, having