CHAPTER X.THE CONSCIENCE OF MALPERTUIS.
And so back to my room I went, my task accomplished, and so pleased was I with what had passed that as I drew on my boots--preparing to set out to Canaples--I laughed softly to myself.
St.Auban I would dispose of in the morning.

As for the other members of the cabal, I deemed neither Vilmorin nor Malpertuis sufficiently formidable to inspire uneasiness.

St.Auban gone, they too would vanish.
There remained then Eugene de Canaples.

Him, however, methought no great evil was to be feared from.

In Paris he might be as loud-voiced as he pleased, but in his father's chateau--from what I had learned--'t was unlikely he would so much as show himself.