“To make sure that you will return before two o’clock, and have at least five or six hours’ sleep before your duel.”
“If I give you my word?”
“Oh! that will be enough; Bussy’s word is never doubted.”
“You have it then.”
“Then, adieu, monsieur.”
“Adieu, Rémy.”
Rémy watched, and saw Bussy enter, not this time by the window, but boldly through the door, which Gertrude opened for him. Then Rémy turned to go home; but he had only gone a few steps, when he saw coming towards him five armed men, wrapped in cloaks. When they arrived about ten yards from him, they said good night to each other, and four went off in different directions, while the fifth remained stationary.
“M. de St. Luc!” said Rémy.
“Rémy!”
“Rémy, in person. Is it an indiscretion to ask what your lordship does at this hour so far from the Louvre?”