"You are always right, Herbeck.

This plan could not have been devised better or more to my satisfaction." The duke laughed.

"You are right.

Ah, here is the chief." Herbeck read the letter in part to the chief, who jotted down the words, repeating aloud in a kind of mutter: "A mountaineer, a vintner, a carter, a butcher, and a baker.

You will give me their descriptions, your Excellency ?" Herbeck read the postscript.
"But you don't tell him who--" "Why should he know ?" said Herbeck, glancing shrewdly at the duke.