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The Companions of Jehu

CHAPTER XXXIX
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"More especially if we say two words to the mail-coach from Chambery next Saturday." "Ah! is that you, Valensolle ?" said Morgan.
"No real names, if you please, baron; let us be shot, guillotined, drawn and quartered, but save our family honor.

My name is Adler; I answer to no other." "Pardon me, I did wrong--you were saying ?" "That the mail-coach from Paris to Chambery will pass through Chapelle-de-Guinchay and Belleville next Saturday, carrying fifty thousand francs of government money to the monks of Saint-Bernard; to which I may add that there is between those two places a spot called the Maison-Blanche, which seems to me admirably adapted for an ambuscade." "What do you say, gentlemen ?" asked Morgan, "Shall we do citizen Fouche the honor to worry about his police?
Shall we leave France?
Or shall we still remain faithful Companions of Jehu ?" There was but one reply--"We stay." "Right!" said Morgan.

"Brothers, I recognize you there.

Cadoudal points out our duty in that admirable letter we have just received.

Let us adopt his heroic motto: _Etiamsi omnes, ego non._" Then addressing the peasant, he said, "Branche-d'Or, the forty-nine thousand francs are at your disposal; you can start when you like.


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