We will guard it as the most sacred secret of our lives, that no one may learn it--no one can make the attempt to rescue him." "I thank you," cried the count joyously.

"You assign me an honorable task, which proves that the heads of the society trust me.

What else have I to do?
Will not a meeting of the conspirators take place?
Will you not summon one ?" "No, for I shall go at once to Totis to make the most necessary additional arrangements with General Bubna, and through him with the Empress Ludovica, that, if the plot succeeds, the advantage will be ours and cannot be claimed by the French party.

But you, count, must manage to summon such an assembly of our friends in some unsuspected place.

I learn that Baroness de Simonie is to give an entertainment to which, without knowing it, she has invited a number of our friends.