For a moment, knowing all I knew, and particularly the responsibilities which lay before me, and the interests committed to my hands, I quailed, confessing myself unequal to him.
I forgot the righteous vengeance I owed him; I cried out helplessly against the ill-fortune which had brought him across my path.

I saw myself enmeshed and fettered beyond hope of escape, and by an effort only controlled the despair I felt.
'To-morrow ?' I muttered hoarsely.

'At what time ?' He shook his head with a cunning smile.

'A thousand thanks, but I will settle that myself!' he answered.

'Au revoir!' and uttering a word of leave-taking to M.Francois d'Agen, he blessed the two servants, and went out into the night..