He has waited long, and he bids me convey to you that if he is to wait longer he must have some security that you are likely to succeed in your design." "Or he will employ other means ?" "Precisely.

Had he followed my advice," the stranger continued with an air of lofty arrogance, "he would have done so long ago." "M.

d'Albigny," Basterga answered, spreading out his hands with an ironical gesture, "would prefer to dig mines under the Tour du Pin near the College, and under the Porte Neuve! To smuggle fireworks into the Arsenal and the Town House; and then, on the eve of execution, to fail as utterly as he failed last time! More utterly than my plan can fail, for I shall not put Geneva on its guard--as he did! Nor set every enemy of the Grand Duke talking--as he did!" M.d'Albigny--for he it was--let drop an oath.

"Are you doing anything at all ?" he asked savagely, dropping the thin veil of irony that shrouded his temper.

"That is the question.