Five minutes sufficed to make the change and, in a little under three hours after starting, they arrived at the village two miles below Fort Medoc.

They stopped at the first house.
"Now, Gregoire," Monsieur Flambard said, as they alighted, "here are five louis for yourself.

You had better drive back to the place where we changed horses, and put up there for the night.

Tomorrow you can go quietly back to Bordeaux.

Don't get there until late in the afternoon.