"
"How, Bigot? Will you challenge and fight them? That will not
avert suspicion, but increase it," remarked Cadet.
"Well, you will see! A man will need as many eyes as Argus to
discover our hands in this business."
Cadet started, without conjecturing what the Intendant contemplated.
"You will kill the bird that tells tales on us, Bigot,--is that it?"
added he.
"I mean to kill two birds with one stone, Cadet! Hark you; I will
tell you a scheme that will put a stop to these perquisitions by La
Corne and Philibert--the only two men I fear in the Colony--and at
the same time deliver me from the everlasting bark and bite of the
Golden Dog!"
Bigot led Cadet to the window, and poured in his ear the burning
passions which were fermenting in his own breast. He propounded a
scheme of deliverance for himself and of crafty vengeance upon the
Philiberts which would turn the thoughts of every one away from the
Chateau of Beaumanoir and the missing Caroline into a new stream of
public and private troubles, amid the confusion of which he would
escape, and his present dangers be overlooked and forgotten in a
great catastrophe that might upset the Colony, but at any rate it
would free Bigot from his embarrassments and perhaps inaugurate a
new reign of public plunder and the suppression of the whole party
of the Honnetes Gens.
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