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"It was a private blow," he said, answering her unspoken thought "It is

like enough the Guises sped it But they knohat is the King's

will, and they have taken the hint and withdrawn theain, Made the end of the Rue Bethizy, in the corner house of which,

abutting on the Rue de l'Arbre Sec, Coligny had his lodgings--"who has placed for his security Fifty pikes under Cosseins"

"Cosseins?" she repeated "But I thought Cosseins--"

"Was not wont to love us!" Tignonville answered, with a confident

chuckle "He was not But the dogs lick where the master wills,

Madee has altered all"

"I hope it may not prove an unlucky one!" she murmured She felt

impelled to say it

"Not it!" he answered confidently "Why should it?"

They stopped, as he spoke, before the last house, at the corner of the

Rue St Honore opposite the Croix du Tiroir; which rose shadowy in the

middle of the four ways He ha in his face, "the change is sudden, is it

not? The King was not wont to be so good to us!"

"The King was not King until now," he answered war to persuade our people Believe me, Mademoiselle, youI will be with you Carlat,