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"Do you e?"

"Yes, Monsieur"

"It is i her voice ienerosity And for a short, a very short, time only"

"It is impossible," he answered quietly "And for reasons, Mademoiselle

In the first place, I can more easily protect my wife In the second, I

am even now summoned to the Louvre, and should be on my way thither By

to-, unless I am mistaken in the business on which I am

required, I shall be on my way to a distant province with royal letters

It is essential that our o"

"Why?" she asked stubbornly

He shrugged his shoulders "Why?" he repeated "Can you ask,

Madeht? Because, if you please, I

do not wish to share the fate of M de Tignonville Because in these

days life is uncertain, and death too certain Because it was our turn

last night, and it ht!"

"Then solad to find you so shrewd," he replied "In an honest