CHAPTER XVII.
Hardly had the carriage in which Count Watzdorf had come disappeared than Cosel called Zaklika to her. Being afraid of spies in her own house, Cosel told him to follow her into the courtyard, and there she tried to speak to him as if she were giving him some instructions concerning the house.
Zaklika had guessed her thoughts.
"We are watched here, are we not?" said Cosel.
"Yes," answered the faithful servant.
"Can we deceive them?"
"The principal spy is Gottlieb, but he is stupid."
"Gottlieb!" exclaimed the Countess.
"Yes; the man that talks so much of his fidelity to you."
"In the city everybody knows you, I suppose?"