Where to bestow you I will talk over with my
daughter. As soon as it becomes dusk this evening she will present herself
at the house-door of Maitre Leroux. She will bring with her disguises for
your lady, the children, and yourself--I have many of them here--and as
soon as it is quite dark she will guide here Dame Margaret with her
daughter and son. You had best not sally out with them, but can follow a
minute or two later and join them as soon as they turn down a side street.
As to the men, you must arrange with them what they had best do. My advice
is that they should this afternoon saunter out as if merely going for a
walk. They ought to go separately; you can decide what they had best do
when outside."
CHAPTER XII
IN HIDING
The news of this terrible danger was so wholly unexpected that Guy for a
moment felt almost paralyzed.
"It seems almost incredible that such wickedness could take place!" he
exclaimed.
"My information is certain," the count replied. "I do not say that I think
your Burgundian friends are in so much danger as some of those of the
king's party, as Burgundy's influence with these Parisians goes for
something; still, he might not be able to save them if they waited till
the demand was made, although he might warn them if he learned that they
were to be among those demanded."
"Does the duke, then, know what is intended?"
The count smiled. "We know what followed the last reconciliation," he
said, "and can guess pretty shrewdly at what will happen now.
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