“What! and he arrived last night! You surprise me, Musdœmon. And had he seen the countess?”
“Still less, sir.”
“Then you saw him?”
“No, noble master; besides, I do not know him.”
“And how, if no one has seen him, do you know that he is in Throndhjem?”
“Through his servant, who was at the governor’s palace yesterday.”
“But he,—did he go elsewhere?”
“His servant declares that as soon as he arrived, he set off for Munkholm, after first visiting the Spladgest.”
The count’s eye flashed fire.
“For Munkholm! For Schumacker’s prison! Are you positive? I always suspected that honest Levin of being a traitor. For Munkholm! What can be the attraction there? Did he want to ask Schumacker’s advice also? Did he—”