I had no thought of playing the spy; it was chance alone that led me here; and you must acknowledge that finding you in this lonely spot, engaged as you are at this hour of the night, was quite enough to awake the curiosity of a man as little disposed to provoke a quarrel as to submit to threats." "It was chance also that brought us here.

We were crossing the square, my friend and I, when we heard groans.

We followed the sound, and found this young gallant, who is a stranger to us, lying here, with a wound in his breast." As the moon at that moment gleamed doubtfully forth, Maitre Quennebert bent for an instant over the body of the wounded man, and said: "I know him more than you.

But supposing someone were to come upon us here, we might easily be taken for three assassins holding a consultation over the corpse of our victim.

What were you going to do ?" "Take him to a doctor.