"Do you mean that he may still be in ignorance of it ?" "Not that.

A month ago a courier was dispatched to him by the Queen-Mother.

The last news of him some four months old, as you have said--reported him at Milan in the service of Spain.

Thither was the courier sent to find him and to deliver him letters setting forth what was toward at Condillac." "A month ago ?" she said.

"And still we have no word.