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What with threats and what with promises , we soon obtained all that we sought to know ; and an offered bribe , which I calculated at ten times the amount the rogue could ever expect to receive from his spendthrift master , finally bound him cheerfully to our service , soul and body . Thus we learned the dismal place to which your noble daughter had been so perfidiously ensnared . We learned also that the count had not yet visited her , hoping much from the effect that prolonged incarceration might have in weakening her spirit and inducing her submission . Peschiera was to go to the house at midnight , thence to transport her to the vessel . Beppo had received orders to bring the carriage to Leicester Square , where Peschiera would join him . The count -LRB- as Leonard surmised -RRB- had taken skulking refuge at the hotel in which Randal Leslie had disappeared . The prince , Leonard , Frank -LRB- who was then in the hotel -RRB- , and myself held a short council .