“Bravo,” cried John Paul Jones. “That must be it—and that fact holds out a promise.”
“Of what nature?”
“We may recover the dispatch! The Lascar will be forced to sound every step of his way toward the disposal of the paper. He may know that it is valuable but he will not know to whom.”
“A good thought,” said Mr. Franklin. “As long as it does not reach the British ministers, who alone would understand it, the paper can do no harm.”
“It shall not reach them,” cried Ethan. “I’ll hunt this man, Siki, all over Europe but what I’ll have the dispatch from him!”
And Captain Jones reached forward and clasped him by the hand.
CHAPTER IX
HOW ETHAN AND LONGSWORD MET A MAN NAMED FOCHARD
Captain Jones did not propose to leave Paris for a few days, and this gave Ethan an idea.
“When Danvers and Siki and the rest of them rode away from the Burgundian King the other night they came in the direction of Paris. I think that it would be as well were Shamus and myself to look about in the districts most frequented by sailors; we might come upon the Lascar, somewhere.”
As the commander of the Ranger approved of this, the two set out that afternoon.