I have told you enough to make it clear to you that my search is at last ended.

What we require now is money to enable us to bring this King of France to his own; to bring him, in the first place, to my humble chateau of Gemosac, where he can lie hidden until all arrangements are made.

I leave it to you, my dear Albert, to collect this preliminary sum." De Chantonnay folded the letter and looked at the faces surrounding the dimly lighted table.
Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence, who must have known the contents of the letter, and, therefore, came provided, leaned across the table with a discreet clink of jewellery and laid before Albert de Chantonnay a note for a thousand francs.
"I am only an Englishwoman," she said, simply, "but I can help.".