On the way you are going to assist in another affair that will be equally to your credit; and then if all goes well with us I'm going to give myself the pleasure of allowing Monsieur Chauvenet to tell you exactly who I am.

The incident appeals to my sense of humor--I assure you I have one! Of course, if I were not a person of very great distinction Chauvenet and his friend Durand would not have crossed the ocean and brought with them a professional assassin, skilled in the use of smothering and knifing, to do away with me.

You are in luck to be alive.

We are dangerously near the same size and build--and in the dark--on horseback--" "That was funny.

I knew that if I ran for it they'd plug me for sure, and that if I waited until they saw their mistake they would he afraid to kill me.