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'I'II F SInNAT, ! CODER lt`I I. ONTARIO
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The Helmet
of Navarre
A STORY OF LOVE AND ADVENTURE
BY BERTHA RUNKLE.
Copyright by The Century Co.
CHAPTER XIX court a' \'tgo's hens, 411, nt.
M. Etienne was standl't; 1.1 the door-
' way
I found M. Etienne sitting on the
steps before the house. He bad doffed
his rust • black for a suit of azure and
silver; ht. sword and poniard were
heavy with silver chasing.. His blue
bat, Its white plume pinned in a sil-
ver buckle, lay on the stone beside
Lim. He had discarded his sling and
was engaged In tuning a lute.
Evidently he was struck by some
change In my appearance, for he ask-
ed at once:
"What has happened. Felix?"
"Such a lark!" I cried.
"What! did old Menud share the
crowns with you for your trouble?"
"No; be pocketed them alt. That
!was not it."
I was so choked with laughter as
to. maks 1t hard work to explain what
was it, while his first bewilderment
changed to an amazed interest, which
In Its turn gave way, not to delight.
but to distress.
"Mordteu!" he cried, starting up. his
lace ablaze, "If 1 resemble that dirt"
"As chalk and cheese." T said. "No
one seeing you both could possibly
mistake you for two of the same race.
But there was nothing in his catalogue
that did not At him. It mentioned, to
ire sure, the right arm in a sling; his
was not, but he had Its wrist ban-
daged. T think he cut himself last
night when he was after me and I
flung the door in his face, for after-
ward he beid his hand behind his
back. At any rate, there was the bar-
dage; that was enough to satisfy the
captain."
And they took him off?"
"Truly. They gagged him herause
he protested so much, and lugged him
Ilff."
"To the Bastille?" he demanded. as
If he could seareely realize the event.
"To the Bastille. Tn a hig trac•eling-
ceach, between the officer and his
- men. He may be there by this thee."
He looked at me as It he were *till
not quite able to believe the thin,;.
"it is true, monsieur. If 1 were i11 -
venting It 1 could not invent any-
thing better; but it is tre."
"Cortes, yon could not invent any-
thing teener: Nor anything half 0.
good. 11 ever there was a case of the
biter bit" he broke off laughing.
"Monsieur. y.,n knew not half how
fenny it was, Had you aero their
faces -the more Lucan swore he was
not Comte de Mar the more the offi-
cer was sure be was.".
"Felix, you have all the luck. I said
this morning you should go about no
more without me. Then 1 send you off
on a stupid errand, and see what you
get into!"
"Monsieur, I put it to you' ihad you
been there, how could limas have
been arrested for Comte de Mar?"
"He won't 51,iy arrested long--
more's the pity."
"No," 1 said regretfully; "but they
may keep him overnight."
"Aye; he may he out of mischief
overnight. I am happy to say that my.
face 1a not known at the Bastille."
"Nor his. I take P. 1 thought from
what I heard last night that he had
never been In Paris save for a while
In the spring, when he 1.y perdu. At
the Bastille they may know nothing of
the existence of a Paul de Lorraine.
Rut. monsieur. if Mayenne has broken
tib word already. if they are arrestiuK
yon on this trumped-up charge, you
must get out of the gates to -night."
"Impossible," be answered, smiling;
"I bave an engagement in Paris."
"But monsieur may not keep tt. He
must go to 8t. Denis."
•'I must go nowhere but to the Ho-
tel Lorraine." •
"Monsieur!"
"Why? look you, Felix; it is the
safest spot for me to all Paris; it Is
the last place where they will look
for me. Besides, now that they think
me behind bars, they will not he look-
ing for me at alt. I shall be as safe
as the hottest Leaguer in the camp."
"But in the hotel" -
"Be comforted; I shall not enter
the hotel. There is a limit to my mad-
ness. No; T shall go softiy- around to
a window to the stele street tinder
which I have often stood in the o'.d
days. She used to contrive to ire it
her chamber after supper."
"But, monsieur. how long -is it -',ince
lou were there last?"
"I think It must he twoi:piontba. I
bad little heart for 1t atter my father
-- Bo, you see, no one will bo on Om
lookout for MP to -night."
"Neither will mademoiselle," I made
my point.
I hope she may," be answered.
"Abe will know i must see her to-
night. And I think she will be at the
wlndcew."
The reasoning recmed satisfactory
to him. Aod 1 thought one wet blanket
In the boutwas enough.
"Very *ell, monsieur. T am ready
for anything you propose."
"Then I prnpose supper."
Afterward we played shovel -hoard,
7 risking the plctole. mademoiselle
• had given me. 1 won five more, for he
paid little heed to what he was abort,
but was ever fidgeting over to the wln-
drew to see If it wee dark enough to
start. At, length, when 11 was .1111 be-
tween
rtween dog and wolf, hr announced that
.he would delay no longer.
"Very well, monsieur," I *aid with
all alacrity.
"Rut you are not to come!"
"Monsieur!"
"Cfrtstnly not. I must go alone to-
night."
wt, trenetenr, yen will need me.
You wttl nerd some one to wateh 11.
street while you mpcak with modemol
gene"
"I can have no listener tonight," he
replied immovably.
'But 1 will not listen. tnonsieer' 1
shall stand one of earshot. Bnt you
must have some one to give you warn
Ing should the guard net on you."
"I can manage my- own affairs," be
retorted haughtily; "l desire neither
your advice nor your eompany."
"Monsieur!" 1 cried, almost In tears.
"Enough!" he bade sharply. "Oo
send nor Vlgn."
1 *eat like one In silicate fare the
doors ut h.utea bad abut.
Vigo game at once from the guard•
room at MY • r.amoa$. It wag on my
towgw to .11 him of M. le Comte's
orad .resolve to fare forth stone, to beg
Aim to stop It. But T remembered how
Waineworthy i myself had held the
equerry for interfering with M.
>•{ sats, and 1t made up my mind that
IN =of cavil M my lord Afield
.1M um. 1 i*sge serves the
"\'Igo." he sail. w'Ithrut a chants.
, of enunteranr,, "Yet Fr"x ti mole?.
which hr e'In 1151' llrrtt:!v enough. I
0141001' take hits nut Of -night -unarni-
cll,' -
\'ign' utaltalyd a n:ca'.'rt, saluted
and went. •
"Monsieur," i rrted out. "you meant
all the time to lake toe'"
Ile gazed t'ow'n on nit hated 1'14
g0 and lan:rhed and leached
"Felix." he gasped. "von had cent'
'port over there at the Ina Ilut I have
teen nothing this summer as funny as
y nur fare :' .
Vico came hare; with a sword sed
l'ldcie f••r e'• . nr.l a hoe•-' l'�-1 .1 1 '.
s a.•.,
frit 11. ia'r::nr w•nnCJ cr1 :.•t ire
rive It,
^('ireenistar.ces ween. Vigo. (lint
era:1r ne nets:. weapons "
The egtmer)- r.`gvr.l,•,1 !..i W'11
trnntit.••1 en'mitemere.
"t w:+h I korw, rwros!r'Ir. w'':. then
1 dr' rizht to let •.n: co."
\\'r sill not dismiss tha', and ft
111^8'5 you."
"I t'•1 ort. sena,inir. 1 Pat.' nn ri.a•
fn curtail M. 1e curie 's liberties. Bat
t 'et '•11.1 gu r,ith a hence heart."
He looked after n.+ w;:!t fnrelio;ling
rtes as' we wept not of tn.. creat carr
atone. with net Kr murk an n linklio•:.
Rut if his heart was hear4 nur heat:•
were light. \\'e passed ;+long ae met,
rely as though to a teas'. 1I. i:tienn.
1pntg hi+ lute over his neeh and
.trunuurd it; and whenever we pass-
ed ender a window- whenee leaned a
pretty head he 'ang snatches of love-
songs We were alone in rhe': dark
streets of a hostile city, hound for the
house of a mighty trw: rind one M us
was *mended and one a tyro. Yet we
laughed as we went; for there was
Lucas languishing 1, prison, ami here
we were. free as ale, steering oar
ermrse for madentotseile's window.
one of us was in hive and the other
wore a sword for the first time, and
all the power of Mayenne daunted us
not.
We came at len;,th within bowebot
its sroppea again ane noon gc;
up into the wludow, but whether ho
saw something or heard something I
could not tell. Apparently be was not
sure himself, for preseut.ly, a little
tremulous, he added the fourth verso:
Askest thou of me a clue
To that lady I love best?
Fairest blossom ever grew!
This 1 say, her eyes are blue.
He doffed his hat, pushing back the
hair from his brow, and wafted, eager,
hopeful. There was a little stir In the
room that bo thought was uot the
wind.
i had come unconsciously halfway
up the street to him In the ardor of my
interest; but now 1 was startled bark
to my duty by the sound of men run-
ning round the corner behind me. One
glance was enough; two abreast,
swords In hand, they were charging
i's. I ran before them, drawing blade
' as i went and shouting to M. Etienne.
Itnt even as I called an answering
ehositecame from the alley; two men
of the Spanish guards shot out of the
darkness and at us.
M. Etienne, with his extraordinary
quickness, had got the lute oft 115
neck, and now, for want of a better
use of it. flung It at the head of his
nearest assailant who received it full
In the face, stopped, hesitated a mo-
ment and ran back the way he bad
come. But three foes remained, with
the whole Hotel de Lorraine behind
t hem.
We put our, backs to the wall and
set to. The remaining Spaniard en-
gaged me; M. Etienne. protected
somewhat in the embrasure of a door-
way, held at hay with his good left
arm a pair of attackers. These were in
the dress of gentlemen, and wore
masks. as If their cheeks blushed
-twell they might) for the deeds of
their bands.
A broad window in the Hotel de
T.nr
,.sine wile flung open; a map Lean-
ed tar out with a torch. The bright
glare in our faces bewildered our
gloom -accustomed oyer; I could not
see what I was about, and rammed my
point against my Spantat'd's 1(11, goal).
ping my blade.
The sudden fmpact sent him stum-
bling heck a pace, and M. Etienne.
who, with the quick eye of the born
fencer, saw everything, cried to me,
"Here!"
I darted hack into the doorway he -
Fide him. His two assailants finding
that they gained nothing by their 1•,(a'
attack, but rather hampered . ac's
other. one dropped back to witch his
.'omrade, the cleverer aynr.lrtnan.
This was decidedly a man of tale'.',
but h. was shorter In the arta than
my master and hail the dlsadvanr;ee
of wending on the Fiound, whereas M.
Etienne was up one step. flee enuld
not force home any of -his shrewd-p!.n.-
sed 1hrueta; nor could he drive `i.
Etienne „r - cni:", to v here
"1 went to my pest a nd he began singing."
Of tits lintel dr Lorraine. where al.
ta!'';tn'' w'.1. wtl!Inc to ahn1,• nom"-
w'h:+t his sw;i;M.t•. tl'n Info the Rite Rt.
%ntnine. ererp!rg ,.mond behind the
house thee 1);i, a tiairow and twisting
an,: --It w•a'c pl:c::tilar!c, tett he 1 new
the way w.,te-In1' a little stre0t dlm-
ii:,h;ed from tin' v indowa of the
house upon it. 1t was only a few rods
long, twiiling from the open aqua;., to
front of 1h0 hotel 10 th,, networle of
11trpavr4 14114•). behind. On the further
side stood a row of high -gabled houses,
their doors opening directly on the
pavement; on this side w'an but one
big pile, the Hotel de t,orrnine. 'rhe
wall w'ac broken by few windows, most
nr than .lark; this was not the gay
side M the' house. The overhanging
ferret yeti the low see,01 story, under
whleh \I. Etienne hatted, was is dark
as the rest, nor, though the easement
Wal open tilde, ctnnld win toll wh'•t:le»
any rine,_w•is 111 the rrnm. We cent.'
Mar nothing but the breeze crackling
in the silken curtains.
"Take your station at the corner
there," he bade. "and shoat If trive\
seem to be rooting for its. Bot 1 think
AP shall not he mnlect.d. Mw fingers
are Ars stiff they w•111 haidls recogntre
my hand nn the string. " •
f went to my post, not he began
ainglms q lend enough for a-:
uc ole lady above to mark him;
Fairest hlnssntn ever grew
Once she balm -met' from her areas'.
'This 1 say, her errs are blue.
Fran, her breast the rnse the drew,
(Dole for me, her servant blest,
Pabst blossom ever grew.
•
Tho muute paned, and T turned
from my watch of the shadowy figures
crossing the sentare, in Instant alarm
lest admething was wrong. But what.
vier'startled him ceased, for In mo-
ment he went on again, and as be sang
his voI(•r• ran., fide,.•
(if toe lose HI.• guetdol' trite,
'fie my bosom's only 'guest.
This I say, her eyes are blue.
Still to me 'tie bright of hue
As when Ant my kisses prest
Fairest blossom ever grew.
Sweeter than when gathered new
'Twas the sign her love contest.
This 1 Mi, her ei ra are Neu
"1 am a young 111511 Id amazing good
fortune, madame." M. Etienne re-
plied, tcith his handsomest bow,
sheathing his set blade. "1 owe you
a debt of gratitude which is ill repaid'
in the base coin of bringing trouble
to this house."
"Not at all -not at all l." she pro-
tested with animation. "No one is
likel to molest this house. It is the
dwelling ..f M. Ferou."
"Of the Sixteen"
"Of the Sixteen." she nodded, her
shrewd tore agleam with mischief.
"In truth, if my gen Aver,. within you
were little likely to tied harborage
hero. But as it is, he and his wife
are supping with His Grace of i.yon..
And the servants are ono and all gone
to mars. having madame grandmere to
.hilt fur her..elf. No. no, my good
frieuds; you may knoek till you drop,
but you won't get in."
The 'attacking party was indeed
hammering energetically on the door.,
shouting to us to open. to deny theta
at our peril. The eyes of the old lady
glittered with new delight at every
rap.
"1 fatty they will think twice be-
fore they batter clown M. Ferou'e
door' Mu tot! 1 funny they are a
little mystified nt finding you sane-
tuaried in this house. Was it not my
Lord Mnyenne's jackal, Fraucojs de
Bri"
1'es; and Marc Latour."
"I thought I knew them," she cried
in evident pride at her sharpness. "It
was dark, and they were masked, and
Iny eye: are old, but I knew them!'
And which of the ladies is it?"
He could do no less than answer
hie savior.
"Ah. well." she said, with a little
sigh, "I, too, once -but that is a long
time ago." Then her eyes twinkled
again: 1 Crow she was not much given
to sighing. "That ie a long time ago."
elle repeated briskly, "and now they
think 1 ant too old 10 44 aught but
tell my beads and wait for death. But
I like to have a hand in the game."
"i will come to take n hand with
you any time, madame,': M. Etienne
assured her. ''1 like the way you
P
la
She broke into shall, Ueligbtcd
laughter.
"I'll warrant you do' nisi T don't
mean to do the thing by helves. Nn;
1 -hall ,ave you hide and hair. Be
so kind. Inv la11, as.to lift the lantern
from the honk."
i did as she bade 111e. and ue fol-
lowed her down the passage like span-
iel-. She was eo entirely equal to the
situation that we made mo protests
and asked no question-. .\t the end
of the hall .he paused. opening neith-
er the door on the right nor the door
on the loft, but, passing her hand up
otic of the panels of the wainscot,
suddenly she flung it utile.
"You are 'not so small as I," sire
chuekl.'d. "yet i think you ran make
shift to get through. You, monsieur
lantern -hearer. ge hist."
I doubled sly -ill up Mid .rransbled
thr•'ugl. The old 1a.ly. gathering Ler
pettitont. .Ltintlr, followed me with-
out difficulty. but M. Etienne was put.
to some trouble to bow Itis tall head
low enough. We stood nt the top of
n flight id stone step: de.cending in-
to Lhu'kne.s The old lady unhesitat-
ingly flipped down before a+.
.1.1 the (mu' et the ohtics a+ a
vaulted .tour pn..agenac. slippery
with Lchcu. the dampness hanging lit
heads on the wall. 'ruining two cor-
ner-. we brought up at 11 narrow, 11011-
•tud.led do..r.
"Here 1 bol you farewell." qutt11
the little ..1.1 Indy "You have oily
to walk on till you km to the end.
\1 the step- pull the rope once and
wait. When he open- to you, say.
'For the Cause.' and draw a Brown
with \ our finger cat the air."
"\Ind,.me," \f" Etienne cried, "1
holm the any may cone when I shall
milk.. von suitable seknowledgments.
\fy mime" -
"I prefer not to know it." she inter-
• rented. el,mcriig up at bins. "i will
roll yon M. \'our -v-1. : that is rnnugli.
ac•knnw ledgnn•nts-14.40h !, 1 nm
overpaid in the -lest it has been."
"lint. madame. when monsieur your
.•on di -,oyer." --
"Mon dies' 1 ani not nlraiJ of my
sett or of any other woman's son'.'
she e,-i.al, with raekline laughter. And
warrant ae ma- lot.
• "1,.0111111.," \I. Etienne '-aid. "I
tru-t w.• .hall 11 't :ignin wham I
.hall have time 1.• tell you what I
think of nom." 11'• dropped On his
knee. before hcl. kissing both her
lintel-.
"Yr-, ye-. et row..' yeti me grate-
ful,.' Om said.• notreithnt Ie.r,d nppar-
etitli by lit- .Ir'o'n-tretion. "Nahnr-
nlly .•u. dee, n'•t like to db' at your
rim. 1 wish you n pleasant journey,
M. Y•'ux-tri-. noel you. t.al, yon fresh-
faee.l be•'•. I;nc tote hark my Innter i
nn.l i:lr• • ..a1 ttclL..
"Y, n. ,.rill 1.•t 114 site you :Ade brick
iu you. hall."
"I, vitt do notl:ulp of the sort! 1
e rn not so .iccrcprt. thank you, that 1
cannot (,'.•t tit. 171•: .m\11 'fairs. No,
11.x. ue nr r.• gallantries, but get on
your 5...y! 1 must Iso back in my
ch:unb.o' working my nitar•elolJ, when
my Jn,chter-i11-Irlw mimes Boole.,'
C'row'ing her elfin laugh she pulled
the doer open and fnirly hu.tled us
thronOt.
"Gieel•by---yon are fine boys," and
sloe slammed the, d"nr up..t 11wo
wet -e in absulnte darkness. As wr
tock ••car lir-t breath of the 'lark. foal
ail y 0 henr.l boll. sent. into pine...
"Weil. '11)011 w'e oannut eu Lark, let
as go forward," said M. Etienne,
cheerfully, "1 nut glad elle has bolt-
ed the door: it a- to throw therm off
the trent should they track ue."
T knew very will flint he wn:: tint
tit all glgd; that the same thought
which vilified my blend hard come to
him. 'Iiia little beldame, with her
bendy r}es and her brighter. was the
wiekwl witch of OUT childhrind'dsys.
she hs.l shut lie up in a charnel -house
to dim.
1 heard hint tapping the pavement
before him with his scabbard, tieing
it is n blind m.n's..,teff. And en wo
sdvaneetl throng,' the fetid gloom, the
passage being only wide enough to
let ns walk shoubler to shoulder.
There car,,. n slurring cd wings abwut
us and n squeaking; once icnnething
sits -awed square into my face, knock-
ing n cry of terror from me and a
laugh from hint.
'11'11E1 WAS it, n bat? Cheer up,
1'.•lix ; they don't bite." But I would
not go en till I hnd ntn4n sure. ns
well H. 1 eonlll without seeing, Hutt
the cursed thing 44141 nut rlirmging un
me somewheM►
We wilked on then in silence, the
stone walls vibrant with out tread.
We wept on till it seemed we hnd
travrraed the width of Parini and 1
wondered who were sleeping and feast-
ing and scheming and loving area our
hendn. M. Etienne maid at length:
"Mdlea, 1 hope theta olds
doea..nrEot eisait•lis�l➢1V
the open the two could make tiwrt
work of him. The rapiers elastle'l a'1.1
parted and twisted ahont each ether
and flew apart again: and then hefors
d'could see who was touched the at.
tacker fell to hl• knees, with M.
Etienne's Sword In 111a breast.
31. Etienne wrenehed the blade out:
the e:ounded man stink backward. his
mask -string breaking. ire was the one
Whom I had thought him- Fran.'ois
do Brie.
M. Etienne was rends for the see.
nod gentlema4t, foul neither he nor the
soldier attacked. The toreh-beer.r in
the window, with a shoat. wevsd his
arm toward the manor. A mob of arm-
ed men hurled itself around Co. cnrner,
a plkeman with lowered point in the
ran.
Thos was not combat: it was )m'-
"hery. \i. Etienne. with 5 little matt"
lifted his even foe the first tlma frotn
his assailant to the turret window. in
the Sake Inatant 1 frit the door behind
um give. Throwing my whole w'•laht
upon It T seized M. Etienne and ett:lr.t
him over the threshold. Sante nnr In-
side slammed the 'Ivor to just as the
Rp.nlard hurled himself *gain,' it.
cif1PTFR ?(It
We ?nand eel -solves Inn narrnw pan-
elled pass*gew'aylighted by A flicker -
Ing oitiamp pendant from a bracket.
('nnfrenttng ns wits 015 prsaer0rr-S
little old lady In black velvet, ironing
bark In r•hnrkling triumph against the
shot bolta.
She on. every tonsil end very .4d.
Her figure was befit and shrunken,
II pitifuI little ling of bonen in n rich
dress; her hair was na white as her
ruff; her skin as yellow and dry as
pan hnu r,t, farrowed with n thousand
wrinkle.: but lire black eyes sparkl-
ed like 11 girl's.
"I did not mean to 1.-i my nightie•
cul.•'• 11110)11 Io• ,+Ica," .1e' cried in •
shrill yoiee quavering like a young
Hi(Id's, "1 leve listened to your
singing mane a night, monsieur. I
ttsr glad t.i-night to find the niyhllb-
ante peck again. When i saw tint
erew rush at you t acid 1 would save
3011 it only yon would put your beck
110 my 'dont. Mondeo, yon Ate t
3•;gng 11150 of 1pt,•Iligrnce."
But I thought that as iung as I; (MP -
tied us out somewhere I should not
greatly mind the Seine.
At this very moment M. Etienne
elutehed uty.arm. jerking me to • halt.
I bounded backward, trying in the
blackness to discern a precipice yawn-
ing at my feet. "Look!" he cried in
A low, tense woke. 1 perceived, far
befc.re us in the gloom, a point of
light, which. as we watched it, grew
bigger and bigger till it became an
approaching lantern.
"riffs is likely to be awkward," mur-
mured M. Ei.'lole.
The MED carrying the light came on
with firm, heavy tread; naturally he
.ht' out see us as goon as' we saw
I i thought him alone. but it
WWI hard to tell in this dark, echoey
place.
He might easily have approached
within tench of my sad clothing with-
out becoming aware of me, hot M.
I:tienne's azure and white caught the
lantern rayn a rod away. The new-
comer stopped short, holding up the
light between ue and his face. We
could slake nothing of hits, save that
he was a large manf soberly clad.
"Who is it?" he demanded, his voice
ringing out loud and steady. "Is it
you. Ferou"
M. Etienne hooked his scabbard f11
place and went forward into the clear
circle of light.
"No. M. de Mayenne; it is Etieun.•
de Mar "
"Ventre bleu!" Mayenne ejaculated.
changing his lantern with eotnieal
nlaerity to his -left hand, and whip-
ping out his sword. My toaster came
bare, too, at that. They confronted
each other in silence. till Mayennc's
ever-increasing satonishment fort -rot
the cry from Inc :
"}.low the devil came you here-"
"Evidently by way of M. Ferret's
house," M. Etienne answered May-
enne still stared in thick amazement;
after a moment my master added: "1
must in justice say that 111. Ferou l-
ino!. aware that i ant using this pa: -
sage; he is, with madame his wit.•.
supping with tie Archbishop of
I.youe."
M. Etienne leaned his sltouldht
against the wall. smiling pleasautlr
and waiting for the duke to make the
next emote. Mayenne kent a 11110
plussed silence. The situation ea.
indeed somewhat awkward, He could
not come forward without encounter-
ing an agile opponent, whose exreed-
in; skill with the sword was probably
kn.awn to hien. He coati not turn tail.
, had his dignity allowed the course.
without exposing himself to Le 14p0 -
t.'1. 11e was in the predicament of
the goat nu the bridge. Yet was he
gaping at us lees in fear, 1 think, thnn
in bewilderment. This Ferrel, as 1
!learned later, was one .4 hid right-
hand men, years -long supporter. Mar-
rune had as goon expected to meet
a lion in the tunnel as to meet a fee.
He cried out again upon us, with an
instinctive certainty that a great
prince'e question must be answered
"How came you here?"
"1 don't ask," said M. Etienne,
"how it happens that M. In Duc is
walking this rathole.' Nor do 1 feel
dispotted to' make any explanati.i
to him."
'Very well, then," said Mayenne:
"nur swords. if you are ready, will
stake adequate explanation."
"Now. that is gallant 11f you," res
turned M. Etienne, "as it it evident
that the elu.enesd of these walls will
inconvenience Your Grace more than
it will roe."
Um as CONTINUED.)
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