“You are right. The case is desperate, and you know the only cure for a desperate case is a desperate remedy.”
“Go on.”
“She is due at Versailles at nine o’clock to-morrow evening. Well, we are going to steal her carriage, her dress and her hairdresser.”
“Dubarry’s?”
“Yes, Dubarry’s.”
“And you want me——”
“To help.”
“And when is this theft to be made?”
“To-morrow, at six o’clock in the evening. We cannot entrust this business to servants. I have a friend who will look after the milliner, I myself will attend to the hairdresser, and you, my dear Camus, must look after the carriage.”
“Let us clearly understand each other,” said Camus. “You propose to suppress a hairdresser, a carriage and a gown. Is this to be done by brute force, or how?”