10/14 You will receive annually a sufficient sum from a certain banking-house which will supply all your wants. Have our two trusty friends been apprised ?" "Yes; they await me hourly." "So soon as you are beyond the French boundary you may communicate with me in the way we have agreed upon. Until I hear from you I shall be in a terror of anxiety. I am sorry I cannot accompany you, but I am already suspected. You are, as yet, free from suspicion--are not yet registered in the black book!" "You may trust my skill to evade pursuit," said the young man, producing from a secret cupboard a casket richly ornamented with gold. |