"Well, sir, we will see about getting our disguises at once."

"I will give you an order on the paymaster for a hundred crowns
for special service," Turenne said. "It is as well to be amply
provided with money, as it may be necessary to buy fresh disguises
or to bribe someone to conceal you;" and he drew an order on the
treasury and handed it to Hector.

"You will find the plan of the town in your room when you return."

Paolo was waiting for him.

"It is settled, Paolo; we are to go."

"This is an adventure after my own heart," the boy said with delight.
"It will be great fun to outwit the Spaniards."

"Yes, but we must mind that they don't outwit us, Paolo, which is
quite as likely. Now let us talk of our disguises again. I think
you had better go and buy them. I would rather get old ones than
new. I don't suppose that anyone is likely to take notice of me
in the streets, but it would be well at any rate that we should
not both have new clothes, and better that neither of us did so."

"I can manage that, sir. There are shops here where one can buy
old clothes as well as new ones. I noticed one the other day in
a narrow street by the wall. I wondered then who would buy some of
the garments hung up. They were so old and so often mended that
it was difficult to say what was the original colour. The people
are very poor up in the mountains; since the war began, doubtless