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"And toe of my feet!" the cripple answered, not to be outdone "And toe

ofto your sins!" the other, who had so of the air of

a Churchiven Remember that, brother, and spare not if your soul be

burdened! They blaspheme God and call Him paste! In the paste of their

own blood," he continued ferociously, "I will knead theood Father Pezelay, my master!"

The cripple crossed hiood

ill, noble sir?" he continued, peering

curiously at the young Huguenot

"'Tis the heat," Tignonville hts o nearer the door"

He hoped to escape theiving the alarm But when he had forced his way to the threshold,

he found it guarded by two pike back to see if his

ht have

awakened suspicion--he found that the taller of the thory face, atching him a-tiptoe,

over the shoulders of the crowd

With that, and the sense of his ian to swi his party, the fate so

treacherously prepared for all whom he loved and all hom his

fortunes were bound up, confused his brain almost to deliriuine soht

escape froht cry the alar hisflashes he foresahat must happen: his betrothed in the hands of the murderers; the fair

face that had shters