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Tavannes, his hands on the ledge of the shattered , leaned out

laughing, and followed theone, the street was eed froe They gathered about the three huddled forutter: or, not three--two For even as they approached

theiddily to his feet He turned a

face bleeding, lean, and relentless towards the hich Tavannes

stood Solen of the cross, and with uplifted hands, he

cursed hi, in

riding, in standing, in the day of battle, and at the hour of death The

pikemen fell back appalled, and hid their eyes; and those ere of the

north crossed theers horse-shoe fashion But Hannibal de Tavannes laughed; laughed in

his , and bade them move that carrion to a

distance, for it would sh Then he turned his

back on the street, and looked into the room