If we should meet everything might be ruined." Then with a change of manner he stayed Samoval, who was already on his way to the door.

"We understand each other, then ?" he questioned them.
"I have my papers, and at dawn I leave Lisbon.

I shall report your conclusions to the Prince, and in anticipation I may already offer you the expression of his profoundest gratitude.

Meanwhile, you know what is to do.

Opposition to the policy, and the plans of the fortifications--above all the plans." He shook hands with them, and having waited until Samoval assured him that the corridor outside was clear, he took his departure, and was soon afterwards driving home, congratulating himself upon his most fortunate escape from the hawk eye of Colquhoun Grant.
But when in the dead of that night he was awakened to find a British sergeant with a halbert and six redcoats with fixed bayonets surrounding his bed it occurred to him belatedly that what one man can see in a mirror is also visible to another, and that Marshal Massena, Prince of Esslingen, waiting for information beyond Ciudad Rodrigo, would never enjoy the advantages of a report of Count Samoval's masterly constructive and deductive reasoning..