"Ugh!"
"Your excellency, I have a plan; and I think we win the odd trick."
"Well, what is your brilliant idea?"
Trotto coughed. "But the risk, excellency, is greatly increased now that this man is mixed up in the affair."
Simon straightened himself in his chair and looked at the captain.
"I suppose you want more money. Well, what is your plan?"
"With your excellency's permission I will keep that to myself, for a plan is a plan when one head holds it. But if I were to place your prize in your hands by tomorrow morning?"
"Impossible!"
"But I say it is possible."
"Then five hundred crowns the day you reach Paris."