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`` Simply that I received this morning a letter demanding you be surrendered to Cazaio , '' de Soyecourt answered as he sounded the gong . `` Otherwise , our amiable friend of the Taunenfels announces he will attack Bellegarde . I , of course , hanged his herald and despatched messengers to Gaston , whom I look for to-morrow . If Gaston indeed arrive to-morrow morning , Mr. Bulmer , I shall relinquish you to him ; in other circumstances will be laid upon me the deplorable necessity of summoning a Protestant minister from Manneville , and , after your spiritual affairs are put in order , of hanging you -- suppose we say at noon ? '' `` The hour suits me , '' said John Bulmer , `` as well as another . But no better . And I warn you it will not suit the Duke of Ormskirk , either , whose relative -- whose very near relative -- '' He posed for the astounding revelation .