We could succeed without that, because we should notice the chairs waiting for them.

Still, it is as well that we should get all the information we can.

There will be, doubtless, personages leaving who have been with the Princess Anne.

They might go out by another entrance, and therefore we should miss our man." "You will have more than the two chair men to deal with, your honour, for there are sure to be two link men with the chair." "Well, it will be as easy to dispose of four men as of two, Mike." "Every bit, your honour, and the more of them the more divarsion." An hour later they set out, now so well disguised that no one would have dreamt that the three Irishmen were officers in a French regiment; and before noon Desmond succeeded in obtaining, from a scullion employed in the palace, the particulars that he required.

On saying that he had but just come to London, and wanted to get a sight of the great people, the present of a shilling sufficed to extract the information from the boy; and Desmond then rejoined his companions, and they at once returned to their lodgings, where they found Mike awaiting them.
"I have managed it, your honour, but it will cost twelve louis.