“For money we have two millions cash——“
“Lent by a Genoese banker? I know him. Any other funds?”
“I know of none.”
“So much for the money: now for the men.”
“General Lafayette has authorized the raising of a legion to fly to the help of Brabant revolting against the Empire.”
“Under cover of which you form a royalist legion? I see the hand of Lafayette in this,” muttered Cagliostro. “But you will want more than a legion to carry out this plan—an army.”
“Oh, we have the army. Two hundred horsemen are gathered at Versailles ready to start at the appointed hour: they can arrive in three columns at Paris by two in the morning. The first gets in to kill General Lafayette: the second to settle old Necker; the third will do for Mayor Baily.”
“Good!” exclaimed the listener.
“This done, the cannons are spiked, and all rally on the Champs Elysées, and march on the Tuileries where our friends will be masters.”
“What about the National Guards there?”