Then-- "If I do this thing, Sire," I ventured, "the world will say of me that I did so to escape the payment I had incurred." "Fool, you have not incurred it.

When a man cheats, does he not forfeit all his rights ?" "That is very true.

But the world--" "Peste!" he snapped impatiently, "you are beginning to weary me, Marcel--and all the world does that so excellently that it needs not your collaboration.

Go your ways, man, and do as you elect.

But take my sanction to slay this fellow Chatellerault, and I shall be the better pleased if you avail yourself of it.