But his mind quickly left Bougainville, and turned to the message that Weber had brought the night before.

He was glad that Julie Lannes would be so near again, and yet he was sorry.

He had not been sorry when he first heard it, but the apprehension had come later.

He tried to trace the cause, and then he remembered the name of Auersperg, the prince whom his cousin, the Austrian captive, had said was near.

He sought to laugh at himself for his fears.