That's my affair.

Four hours ago I had Malin sighted by my gun; ha! he was almost gone then! Were he dead, the property would be sold and you could have bought it.

In case of my death my wife would have brought you a letter which would have given you the means of buying it.

But I overheard that villain telling his accomplice Grevin--another scoundrel like himself--that the Marquis and his brother were conspiring against the First Consul, that they were here in the neighborhood, and that he meant to give them up and get rid of them so as to keep Gondreville in peace.

I myself saw the police spies; I laid aside my gun, and I have lost no time in coming here, thinking that you must be the one to know best how to warn the young men.