"Yes."

"Oh! I have a suspicion which I must have cleared up. Borroville, you
must go to Soissons, to my brother--"

"But the priory?"

"Oh! you can invent some excuse to Gorenflot; he believes all you say,"
said Mayneville.

"You will tell my brother all you know about the mission of M. de
Joyeuse."

"Yes, monseigneur."

"And Navarre--" said the duchess.

"Oh! I charge myself with that," said Mayenne. "Let them saddle me a
fresh horse, Mayneville." Then he murmured to himself, "Can he be still
alive?"




CHAPTER XXXIII.

CHICOT, LATINIST.