I have saved your life from the gibbet, you have done the work I required.

Between us, it is worse than childish to threaten in the present matter.

I do not doubt that you will do your business well, and you know that you will be well paid for it; what can either of us require more ?" Charlie would have given a good deal to understand the conversation, and he would have been specially glad to learn that Stanislas had escaped with his life; for he had taken a great fancy to the young Lithuanian, and was grieved by the thought that he had probably lost his life in his defence.
Three days passed.

His head was now clear, and his appetite returning, and he found, by quietly moving at night, when his guard was asleep, that he was gaining strength.

The third day, there was some talking among several men who entered the room; then he was lifted, wrapt up in some cloths, and put into a large box.