"I passed there yesterday, when I was carrying some fish to Madame de Montrevel at the Château des Noires-Fontaines; there was not even a cat there." Then he added emphatically: "They were all priests of Baal, so there is not much harm done."
The traveller started, more visibly than at first.
"Priests of Baal?" he asked, looking fixedly at the fisherman.
"Yes, and unless you come from a certain king of Israel whose name I have forgotten—"
"From King Jehu, you mean, do you not?"
"I am not sure; it was a king who was consecrated by a prophet—named—named—What was the name of the prophet who consecrated King Jehu?"
"Elisha," responded the traveller, without hesitation.
"That is it. But he consecrated him on one condition. What was that condition? Help me to remember."
"That he punish the crimes of the house of Ahab and Jezebel."