"Was it not due to you after your coming here? I have brought you my cap and bauble."
"I cannot get out then?"
"Try!"
"And if I do get out?"
"I will confess that you have won the game by playing against the rules."
"Chicot, you frighten me.—Have you been sent by some one who is interested in my fate?"
Chicot nodded "Yes." He went nearer to the Prince, and conveyed to him that they were watched and overheard.
"What have you to say to me?" asked Monsieur de Condé.
"That nothing but daring can get you out of the scrape," said the fool, whispering the words into his ear. "And this is from the Queen-mother."
"Tell those who have sent you," replied the Prince, "that I should never have come to this château if I had anything to blame myself for, or to fear."