"How do you know all this, if you have never been in?"

"Did I not tell you I had gained over the servant? She told me
all."

"Mon Dieu! how convenient it is to be a prince. I should have
had to find out all for myself, which would have taken me an
enormous time, and I might have failed after all."

"Then you consent?"

"Can I refuse your highness? But will you come with me to show
me the house?"

"Useless; as we return from the chase, we will make a detour,
and pass through the Porte St. Antoine, and I will point it out
to you."

"Very well, and what am I to do to the man if he comes?"

"Only follow him till you learn who he is. I leave to you your
mode of action. And not a word to any one."

"No, on my honor."

"And you will go alone?"

"Quite."

"Well, then, it is settled; I show you the door on our way home;