"But I do not see your man," said the visitor.
"He went to carry the gold to your carriage, at the fourth tree on the right round the corner on the main street. That is what I told him in German, my lord."
The cardinal lifted his hands in wonder and disappeared in the shadows.
Balsamo waited until Fritz returned, when he went back to the private inner house, fastening all the doors.
[CHAPTER XLI.]
THE WATER OF LIFE.
He went to listen at Lorenza's door, where she was sleeping evenly and sweetly.
He opened a panel and looked in upon her, for some while in affectionate reverie. Closing the wicket, he stole away to his laboratory, where he put out the fire, by opening a register plate which sent most of the heat up the chimney, and ran in water from a tank without.
In a pocket-book, he carefully fastened up the receipt of Cardinal Rohan, saying:
"The parole of a Rohan is all very well, but only for me, and the brothers will want to know yonder how I employ their money."