That may be so.

But you see, Messer Blondel, this affair is not quite where it was yesterday, or we should not have come to you to-day.

The King of France--I am sure we are much indebted to him--does not write on light occasions, and his warning is explicit.

From Paris, then, we get the same story as from Turin.

And this being so, and the King's tale agreeing with our agent's----" "He does not mention Basterga!" Blondel objected.