“I shall not go to meet him; but let him beware of falling into my men’s hands.”
Bénédicité and Coeur-de-Roi burst into a laugh which completed Cadoudal’s thought.
“Hush!” cried Cadoudal.
The three men listened.
“This time it is probably he,” observed Georges.
The gallop of a horse could be heard coming from the direction of La Roche-Bernard.
“It is certainly he,” repeated Coeur-de-Roi.
“Then, my friends, leave me alone. You, Bénédicité, get to Grandchamp as soon as possible. You, Coeur-de-Roi, post thirty men in the courtyard; I want messengers to send in different directions. By the way, tell some one to bring the best that can be got for supper in the village.”
“For how many, general?”
“Oh! two.”