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"We would have you hinder it spreading"

"You have done the deed and are loth to pay the blood-money That is it,

is it?

"We prefer to pay it to M de Biron," Count Hannibal answered civilly

Again the Grand Master was silent awhile At length he looked up and

fixed Tavannes with eyes keen as steel

"What is behind?" he growled "Say, ht behind, I do not know it," Tavannes answered

steadfastly

M de Biron relaxed the fixity of his gaze "But you said that you had

an object?" he returned

"I had--in being the bearer of the s"

"The first, if it please you?" The Grand Master's chin stuck out a

little, as he spoke

"Have you in the Arsenal a M de Tignonville, a gentleman of Poitou?"

"I have not," Biron answered curtly "The second?"

"Have you here a Huguenot ive hied his shoulders "I have a use for one," he said

carelessly "But it need not harm him"

"For what, then, do you need him?"

"To marry me"