In a day or so arrest them under the pretext that you believe them to be spies.

If they remain mute, then the case is serious, and you will have them on the hip.

If, on the other hand, this invasion is harmless and they declare themselves, the matter can be adjusted in this wise: ignore their declaration and confine them a day or two in the city prison, then publish the news broadcast.

Having themselves broken the letter if not the spirit of the treaty, they will not dare declare war.

Every court in Europe will laugh." The duke struck his hands together.