It gives you practically unlimited power, wherever you may go.

It will not enquire into your motives, nor yet your means, so long as these lead to success.

But private vengeance or patriotism, whatever may actuate you, we here in France demand you deliver into our hands the man who is known in two countries as the Scarlet Pimpernel! We want him alive if possible, or dead if it must be so, and we want as many of his henchmen as will follow him to the guillotine.

Get them to France, and we'll know how to deal with them, and let the whole of Europe be damned." He paused for a while, his hand still resting on Chauvelin's shoulder, his pale green eyes holding those of the other man as if in a trance.
But Chauvelin neither stirred nor spoke.

His triumph left him quite calm; his fertile brain was already busy with his plans.