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"Sir Nor a safe yard or two of paveht, "have you goneof all this?"

"Ithis sword, and flourishing it

within an inch of the boy's curly head,--"that you'll be a dead page in

less than half a minute, unless you tell me immediately where she has

been taken to"

"Where who has been taken to?" inquired Hubert, opening his bright

and indignant black eyes in a way that reminded Sir Norman forcibly of

Leoline "Pardon,villain! Do you mean to stand up there and tell me to my face

that you have not searched for her, and found her, and have carried her

off?"

"Why, do youof, that was saved fro upon hi of?" repeated Sir Norman, with

another furious flourish of his sword "Yes, I doof; and what's ainst

that wall, unless you tell me, instantly, where she has been taken"

"Monsieur!" exclai his hands with an earnestness

there was no , "I do assure you, uponof the lady whatever; that I have not found her; that I have

never set eyes on her since the earl saved her from the river"

The earnest tone of truth would, in itself, almost have convinced Sir

Norman, but it was not that, that made him drop his sword so suddenly