‘Pray, listen to me. Send the scoundrel the money—let him have his price—conditionally!’
‘You advise me to do this?’
‘I do.’
He bent down and whispered in Forster’s ear—Forster started—the two men looked at each other.
After some hesitation Forster spoke.
‘He shall have the money!’ he said.
‘And you will make those conditions?’
‘Certainly.’
Forster sat down at once, and wrote a note to Gavrolles. In it he said that he (Gavrolles) should be supplied with a certain sum, if he would pledge himself to return at once to France.