If Basterga made a movement to attack him, he would run him through whatever the consequences.
"Then, fool, I will call the watch!" Blondel babbled, fairly beside himself.
Claude had no answer to that; only they should not go up.

It was the girl's readier wit furnished the answer.
"Call them!" she cried, in a clear voice.

"Call the watch, Messer Syndic, and I will tell them the whole story.

What Messer Blondel would have had me do, and get, and give." "It was for the State!" the Syndic hissed.
"And is it for the State that you come to-day with that man ?" she retorted, and with her outstretched finger she accused Basterga of unspoken things.

"That man! Last night you would have had me rob him.
The day before he was a traitor.