"Yes, you do; you forget daggers and leave them in the bodies of the people you kill."
"That reproach again?"
"I have my reasons for making it to-day. My horse no longer goes lame, but do you think he is in condition to take a long journey to-night?"
"Yes. What is there new?"
"Listen carefully and try to understand quickly. The peddler was a gentleman, the Marquis de Bois-Doré's brother. The knife that you used is in that old man's possession. He has sworn vengeance, and he accuses us on the testimony of some witness, I know not whom."
"The Moorish woman."
"Why the Moorish woman?"
"Because those accursed creatures always bring misfortune."
"If you have no other reason——"
"I have others; I will tell you what they are."