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Thenmore be won fro, no e?

With the brigand it is not possible to bargain But who gives a little

ives a week ive

a month And a month? Her heart leapt up A month seemed a lifetime,

an eternity, to her who had but until to-ht have daunted a spirit less

brave To obtain aught from Tavannes it was needful to ask him, and to

ask him it was needful to see him; and to see him before that to-morrohich meant so much to her It was necessary, in a word, to run some

risk; but without risk the card could not be played, and she did not

hesitate It , that the man was not

only pitiless and without bowels of ave him credit, and on which she counted In that

case, if she sent for him--but she would not consider that case

The position of the hile it increased the wooing forward, except that

which their ears afforded the whether

Tavannes remained in the house or had sallied forth to play his part in

the work of murder Mada In that room above stairs, with the door double-locked, lay a

hope of safety in the present, and of ultimate deliverance; there she had

a respite fro as she kept the world outside To her,

therefore, the notion of sending for Tavannes, or co with him,

came as a thunderbolt Was her mistress mad? Did she wish to court her

fate? To reach Tavannes they must apply to his riders, for Carlat and