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WHEN we were alone, I gave the cardinal the fullest details of what I knew.
-"I half suspected it was thus," he said, when I had finished. "And he used a dagger, you say? The dastard! But what am I to do? He has killed Navéry--that I am assured. He may be plotting against my life-that also I do not doubt; but what proofs can I offer the court of Spain? He is a spy of the queen's, and that makes it more dangerous still. I would consign him to the wheel if I dared, but?"