“Oh, I know how we will manage him. He will return immediately, and claim his share and that of his comrades, and we shall have the whole house on our hands. Well, I will call him first to a secret conference; then leave me to act.”
“I think I understand,” said Manoël.
Neither, however, would leave his friend alone with the chest while he went to call him.
Manoël said “that his dignity as ambassador prevented him from taking such a step.”
“You are not ambassador to him,” said Beausire; “however, I will call through the window.”
The valet, who was just beginning a conversation with the porter, hearing himself called, came up.
Beausire said to him, with a smiling air, “I suppose you were telling this business to the porter?”
“Oh, no.”
“Are you sure?”
“I swear!”