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"Choose! Mademoiselle, and quickly!" he said "For I can only save , and 'twill be no

boy's play"

A shot, a screa feet before the

seconded his words

"Quick, Mademoiselle!" he cried And his breath came a little faster

"Quick, before it be too late! Will you save life, or will you kill?"

She looked at her lover with eyes of agony, du him But

he n, and only Tavannes marked the look

"Monsieur has done what he can to save himself," he said, with a sneer

"He has donned the livery of the King's servants; he has said, 'Whoever

perishes, I will live!' But--"

"Curse you!" the youngtoit on the ground He seized his white

sleeve and ripped it fro only, he held his hand

"Curse you!" he cried furiously "I will not at your bidding! I may

save her yet! I will save her!"

"Fool!" Tavannes answered--but his words were barely audible above the

deafening uproar "Can you fight a thousand? Look! Look!" and seizing

the other's wrist he pointed to the