I don't trust him at all.

He always declines to join in any scheme that we propose, and sees danger in everything." "He would not betray us, however." Mascarin took a few moments for reflection.

"I think," said he, "that Catenac is afraid of us.

He knows that the ruin of me would entail the destruction of the other two.

This is our only safeguard; but if he dare not injure us openly, he is quite capable of working against us in secret.