Briefly he instructed Brutus touching the packing of a valise, which he would probably need that night.
"You are going a journey, Citizen ?" inquired Brutus, to which La Boulaye returned a short answer in the affirmative.

"Do I accompany you ?" inquired the official, to which La Boulaye shook his head.
At that Brutus, who, for all his insolence of manner, was very devotedly attached to his employer, broke into remonstrances, impertinent of diction but affectionate of tenor.

He protested that La Boulaye had left him behind, and lonely, during his mission to the army in Belgium, and he vowed that he would not be left behind again.
"Well, well; we shall see, Brutus," answered the Deputy, laying his hand upon the fellow's shoulder.

"But I am afraid that this time I am going farther than you would care to come." The man's ferrety eyes were raised of a sudden to La Boulaye's face in a very searching glance.

Caron's tone had been laden with insinuation.
"You are running way," cried the official.
"Sh! My good Brutus, what folly! Why should I run away--and from whom, pray ?" "I know not that.