"Are you speaking to us?" asked a voice which made Charles and his companion tremble.
"Well, Henriot," said Charles, "do you recognize the voice now?"
"Sire," said Henry, "if your brother the Duc d'Anjou was not at La Rochelle, I would swear it was he speaking."
"Well," said Charles, "he is not at La Rochelle, that is all."
"But who is with him?"
"Do you not recognize his companion?"
"No, sire."
"Yet his figure is unmistakable. Wait, you shall see who he is—hello, there! I tell you," cried the King, "do you not hear, by Heaven?"
"Are you the watch, that you order us to stop?" said the taller of the two men, freeing his arm from the folds of his cloak.
"Pretend that we are the watch," said the King, "and stop when we tell you to do so."