"Where did he give them to you?"
"At my own home in Paris."
"When he handed them to you, he must have told you whether the Queen-mother would receive you well."
"He told me nothing of the kind," replied Christophe. "He only desired me to give them secretly to Queen Catherine."
"Then have you often seen Chaudieu, that he knew that you were coming here?"
"It was not from me that he heard that I was to carry the furs to the two Queens, and at the same time to ask in my father's behalf for the money owed him by the Queen-mother; nor had I time to ask him who had told him."
"But those papers, given to you without any wrapper or seal, contain a treaty between the rebels and Queen Catherine. You must have known that they exposed you to the risk of suffering the punishment dealt out to those who are implicated in a rebellion."
"Yes."
"The persons who induced you to commit an act of high treason must have promised you some reward and the Queen-mother's patronage."
"I did it out of attachment to Chaudieu, the only person I saw."