"No, the poor man doesn't know anything at all about it; what could he do against you?"
"But from whom are we in danger?"
"A party of gentlemen who are looking for you at Brilbault at this moment, and who will soon pass here, with a big escort, on their way to sleep at Briantes."
"Did you see them?"
"Yes."
"How many of them are there?"
"Perhaps two hundred mounted men!" said Mario trying to frighten his man.
"So the plan is discovered, is it?" said Macabre, evidently shaken.
"It seems so!"
The captain seemed to reflect, in so far as his stony or, more accurately, his horny face could be said to denote any mental preoccupation.