I had the notion to change places with him, and I did.

He was the bearer of a letter to the Deputy La Boulaye, of whom you may have heard, and this letter I opened to discover that it charged him to effect my arrest." If La Boulaye was startled, his face never betrayed it, not by so much as the quiver of an eyelid.

He sat on, his jaw in his palm, his eyes admiringly bent upon the speaker.
"You may judge of my honesty, and of how fully sensible I was of the trust I had undertaken, when I tell you that with my own hand I delivered the letter this morning to that animal La Boulaye at Boisvert." He seemed to swell with pride in his achievement.

"Diable!" he continued.

"Mine was a fine piece of acting.