Let us leave our four _hunters_ on their way to Lagny -- where, thanks to the passports they owed to the obligingness of certain clerks in citizen Fouche's employ, they exchanged their own horses for post-horses and their coachman for a postilion -- and see why the First Consul had sent for Roland.
After leaving Morgan, Roland had hastened to obey the general's orders. He found the latter standing in deep thought before the fireplace. At the sound of his entrance General Bonaparte raised his head.
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