I shall be at the barracks.

It is there that you must bring or send me word." The troopers were ordered to put on their military clothes and saddle their horses, and a quarter of an hour later Hector rode to the barracks, followed by them.
"De Thiou," he said, "I want you and the other five officers to have your horses ready at a moment's notice.

I have some sort of idea that there is a plot on foot against the cardinal, and I want to take a hand in the matter.

I fancy that with you and my five troopers we shall be strong enough to disconcert the plotters." Two hours later he received a message from Paolo, saying that the Duke of Beaufort and three other gentlemen were still at the convent, but that most of the others had gone to the residence of Henri de Campion in the Rue St.Honore.
"They mean to attack him just at the end of the journey," Hector said to himself, "and close to the Hotel de Vendome.

Now it only depends upon whether the Duke of Orleans stays at Maisons or returns with the cardinal." He ordered the officers and troopers to mount, and with them took his post on the road by which the cardinal would return.