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abatement you can. The only limit placed is that you must
not commit the royal treasury to a total sum exceeding ten
thousand crowns. You will, I hope, find a smaller sum
suffice. The envoy will start at six to-morrow morning. I
do not know that there are any further instructions to give
you. Youwill find details in these written instructions as to
the manner in which you are to communicate from time to
time the result of your mission, and you will receive orders
when to return.”

Outside the house Charlie saw his new servant waiting
him.

“You have a horse, Stanislas?”

“Ves, sir, I have been provided with one. J have also a
brace of pistols and a sword.”

“JT hope you will not have to use them, but in these dis-
turbed times they are necessaries.”

“J have better clothes than these, sir, if you wish me to
look gay.”

“By no means,” Charlie replied. “YI am going in the
character of a young Scotchman on my way to join a rela-
tive in business in Warsaw, and you accompany me in the
capacity of guide and servant. As I should not be ina
position to pay high wages, the more humble your appear-
ance the better. We start at six in the morning. ‘The
envoy will leave the royal quarters at that hour, and we
travel with his escort. Join me a quarter of an hour before
that at my but. You had better accompany me there now,
so that you may know the spot. I shall not require your
services before we start, as my soldier servant will saddle
my horse and have all in readiness.”

Harry came to the door of the hut as he saw his friend
approaching.

“Well, Charlie, is all satisfactorily settled?”

“Ves, quite satisfactorily, I think. ‘That is my new
servant. Count Piper has appointed him; he speaks
Swedish and Polish.”