"Yes! it is Swedish."
"What! you know Swedish too?"
"My father taught it me. He corresponded a good deal with the king of Sweden, who supported our schools."
"Then translate me this letter."
Michal did as she was told, and Valentine then hastened with the solved enigma to the commandant, Count Hommonai.
The letter contained very remarkable things. Count Hommonai had no sooner taken note of its contents than he sent for Zurdoki.
"Sir!" he at once began, without so much as asking Zurdoki to take a seat, "you are here with no good intention."
"How?" replied Zurdoki, attempting to give a jocose turn to the matter. "Do you mean that I am perhaps a little too attentive to some of your pretty little ladies here?"
"It is not a question of women, now, cousin! I allude to your correspondence with the Swedish Minister."
"Well! let us hear what you make of it."