'To wash with,' he answered.

'I asked for some yesterday, and you would not bring it,' I
grumbled. 'However, better late than never. Bring it now. If I
must hang, I will hang like a gentleman. But depend upon it, the
Cardinal will not serve an old friend so scurvy a trick.'

'You are to go to him,' he announced, when he came back with the
water.

'What? To the Cardinal?' I cried.

'Yes,' he answered.

'Good!' I exclaimed; and in my joy and relief I sprang up at
once, and began to refresh my dress. 'So all this time I have
been doing him an injustice,' I continued. 'VIVE MONSEIGNEUR!
Long live the little Bishop of Luchon! I might have known it,
too.'

'Don't make too sure!' the man answered spitefully. Then he
went on, 'I have something else for you. A friend of yours left
it at the gate,' and he handed me a packet.

'Quite so!' I said, leading his rascally face aright. 'And you
kept it as long as you dared--as long as you thought I should
hang, you knave! Was not that so? But there, do not lie to me.
Tell me instead which of my friends left it.' For, to confess
the truth, I had not so many friends at this time and ten good
crowns--the packet contained no less a sum--argued a pretty