"True, and I will therefore trust you at once. There is a life to be taken!"
"What! another?" said the man, with surprise depicted on his face.
"Yes, and one who may cost you some trouble to manage-a quick man and a swordsman."
"Who is it?"
"Lorenzo Bezan!"
"The new lieutenant-general?"
"The same."
"Why, now I think of it, that is the very officer whom you visited long ago by the secret passage in the prison."
"Very true."
"And now you would kill him?"