There are the two other lackeys and myself, so we are but fourteen, in all.

If we had arrived in time we might have done something but, now they are firmly lodged in the prison at Toulouse, I see not that we can accomplish anything." Philip fell into silence for some minutes, then he said: "Many of the councillors and members of parliament live, I think, in villas outside the walls.

If we seize a dozen of them, appear before the city, and threaten to hang or shoot the whole of them, if the four captives are not released, we might succeed in getting our friends into our hands, Pierre." "That is so, sir.

There really seems a hope for us, in that way." "Then we will lose no time.

We will ride at once for Toulouse.