"Toby!" he exclaimed.
"Monseigneur," said the valet, "they are looking for him." "He cannot be far distant, I have not given him any commission to execute." "I will go and see, monseigneur," replied the valet, as he closed the door.

Aramis, during this interval, walked impatiently but silently up and down the cabinet.

Again they waited another ten minutes.

Fouquet rang in a manner to awaken the very dead.

The valet again presented himself, trembling in a way to induce a belief that he was the bearer of bad news.
"Monseigneur is mistaken," he said, before even Fouquet could interrogate him; "you must have given Toby some commission, for he has been to the stables and taken your lordship's swiftest horse, and saddled it himself." "Well ?" "And he has gone off." "Gone!" exclaimed Fouquet.