“Ah! true; I go.”
“Wait a minute. He will tell you he has confessed.”
“But if he has?”
“Tell him he lies; that the man who has just left him is no confessor, but an intriguer like himself.”
“But he will be angry.”
“What does that matter, since he is dying?”
“True.”
“Well; one way or the other, you must get hold of those papers.”
“If he refuses?”
“Refuse him absolution, curse him, anathematize him——”