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Ay, why? For now a score of contingencies ca man's mind

and tortured him Had Madame St Lo withdrawn to safer quarters and

closed the house? Or, good Catholic as she was, had she given way to

panic, and determined to open to no one? Or was she ill? Or had she

perished in the general disorder? Or-And then, even as the an to slink towards him, his heart leapt He

heard a footstep heavy and slow h the house It carated Judas-hole in the door slid

open, and a servant, an elderly man, sleek and respectable, looked out at

hinonville could scarcely speak for excitement "Madame St Lo?" he

muttered tremulously "I come to her from her cousin the Comte de

Tavannes Quick! quick! if you please Open to ravely and slid back the bolts He allowed M de

Tignonville to enter, then with care he secured the door, and led the way

across a small square court, paved with red tiles and enclosed by the

house, but open above to the sunshine and the blue sky A gallery which