"And I may expect the information this evening?"
"Yes; be near the Porte Montmartre at nine o'clock this evening. Take care to bring along with you all the money you can get together, and I will tell you all I have learned."
"Enough! Oh, that evening were here—"
"And, while waiting for it, I shall have need of some crowns to give to the friend of whom I spoke to you, and my pockets are empty because I have been robbed so much."
"Here is all that I have upon me, monsieur; take it, I beg of you."
"Very willingly, my young friend," said Chaudoreille; "but day is dawning; we must part until this evening, at the Porte Montmartre."
"Oh, I shan't fail to be there, monsieur."
"And don't forget anything I have told you. Good-by; I'm going to work for you."
Chaudoreille departed, and Urbain, slightly restored by the hope imparted to him by this man, went to his dwelling that he might there wait for evening.
While walking alongside the Pont-Neuf, the Gascon said to himself,—