“That will complicate the diplomatic business,” said Ducorneau; “we shall have to go so often to obtain his signature.”
“His excellency will give you a carriage, M. Ducorneau.”
“A carriage for me!”
“Certainly; every chancellor of a great ambassador should have a carriage. But we will talk of that afterwards. His excellency wishes to know where the strong-box is.”
“Up-stairs, close to his own room.”
“So far from you?”
“For greater safety, sir. Robbers would find greater difficulty in penetrating there, than here on the ground-floor.”
“Robbers!” said Beausire, disdainfully, “for such a little sum?”
“One hundred thousand francs!” said Ducorneau. “It is easy to see M. de Souza is rich, but there is not more kept in any ambassador’s house in Europe.”
“Shall we examine it now?” said Beausire. “I am rather in a hurry to attend to my own business.”