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"Out of the way, then, curse you!"

Before the astonished priest, as a young man, could rise fro, the assailant had

disappeared in the alley He gained the door of the low tavern, flung

it open, pushed by every one, upsetting several, all the while the

bloody rapier in one hand and the mask held in place by the other The

astonished ine bird and

vanish through one of the s, carrying the sash with hirey cloak, and it fluttered back to the floor Scarce

a moment had passed when the pursuers crowded in When questioned, the

stupefied host could only point toward the splinteredfrah this the men scrambled, and presently their yells died away in

the distance

A young arathered up the cloak

"Holy Virgin!" he , "there can not be two

cloaks like this in Paris; it's the very saeneral confusion gained the

alley, took to his legs, and becarey

He made off toward the Seine

Meanwhile terror stalked in the corridors of the hôtel Lights flashed

from indow The court was full of servants and mercenaries

For the

woht-robes, her feet in slippers, hair