"I had not noticed it; but to continue."
"These English refused to have any thing to do with your business, you say?"
"Yes; and showed fight when I would have used force to detain them."
"Then if the judge knows that, the young fellows will be released?"
"Yes; but, my dear friend, it is not likely I shall go to the court to give evidence in their favour."
"You will."
"Nonsense."
"I shall take you there."
There was something in his visitor's manner that made Lenoir first start from his seat and make a hasty movement towards the table.
But he recoiled when Hocquart Clermont Delamarre thrust a revolver in his face and exclaimed—