You will have to play close and hold your hand, and follow any lead that is given you by de Gemosac, or by my humble self.

You will find that easy enough, I know.

For you have all a Frenchman's quickness to understand.

And I suppose--to put it plainly as between men of the world--now that you have had time to think it over--you are not afraid, Barebone ?" "Oh no!" laughed Barebone.

"I am not afraid." "One is not a Barebone--or a Bourbon--for nothing," observed Colville, in an aside to himself.