Part 107 (1/2)
”On the road to Vincennes, to-morrow, at two o'clock precisely”
”To carry off Lyodot and D'Eyot!”
”A number, no doubt; are you afraid?”
”Not for myself, but for you”
”Your men will know, then, what they have to do?”
”They are too intelligent not to guess it Now, a --exposes himself--”
”Of what importance is that to you, I pray? Besides, if I fall, you fall with me”
”It would then be more prudent,to take this little satisfaction”
”Think well of this, abbe, Lyodot and D'Eymeris at Vincennes are a prelude of ruin for my house I repeat it--I arrested, you will be imprisoned--I imprisoned, you will be exiled”
”Monsieur, I aive me?”
”What I told you--I wish that, to-morrow, the two financiers of whom they mean to make victims, whilst there remain so many criminals unpunished, should be snatched froly Is it possible?”
”It is possible”
”Describe your plan”
”It is of rich siuard at executions consists of twelve archers”
”There will be a hundred to-morrow”
”I reckon so I even say more--there will be two hundred”
”Then your hundred and twenty h”
”Pardon me In every crowd composed of a hundred thousand spectators, there are ten thousand bandits or cut-purses--only they dare not take the initiative”
”Well?”
”There will then be, to-morrow, on the Place de Greve, which I choose as my battle-field, ten thousand auxiliaries to my hundred and twenty men
The attack commenced by the latter, the others will finish it”
”That all appears feasible But ill be done with regard to the prisoners upon the Place de Greve?”
”This: they e necessary to get theain And stop! here is another idea, more sublime still: certain houses have two issues--one upon the Place, and the other into the Rue de la Mortellerie, or la Vannerie, or la Tixeranderie The prisoners entering by one door will go out at another”
”Yes; but fix upon so to do so”
”And I,” cried Fouquet, ”I have found it Listen to what has occurred to ”