What does Fouche write ?" "Why, his letter is tolerably laconic, and one must understand how to read between the lines to interpret the meaning correctly.

Here it is.

You see that it is directed to me--Baron von Moudenfels--and contains nothing but the following words: 'Why ask me anything, when you ought already to have accomplished everything yourselves?
Put him in a sack, drown him in the Danube--then all will be easily arranged everywhere.'"[C] "For heaven's sake," cried the colonel, pale and horror-stricken, "what does Fouche mean?
Of whom is he speaking ?" "Why, of whom except Bonaparte, or, as he likes to call himself, the Emperor Napoleon!" said the baron coolly.

"And you will admit that Fouche is right.

If, at Ebersdorf, the sleeping Bonaparte had been thrust into a sack and flung into the Danube, the whole affair would have been ended in the most successful and shortest way, instead of our now being obliged to rack our brains and plunge into dangers of every kind to attain the same goal which we were then so near without peril or trouble.