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"No bars?" he said "No, Monsieur, and no need of theo

by that road, bars or no bars"

"What is below?" Count Hannibal asked carelessly "The river?"

"Yes, Monsieur," with a grin; "but not water Mud, and six feet of it,

soft as Christe, but not so sweet I've knoo puppies

thrown in under thisthat did not weigh one before you could count fifty, and the other did not

live thrice as long--nor would have lasted that time, but that it fell on

the first and clung to it"

Tavannes dis his cloak about

hiainst the wall and sat down The ht in

the wine and the bundle of straere inquisitive, and would have

loitered, scanning him stealthily; but Peridol hurried thelance round the room, and to

mutter that he would return when his lord returned; then, with a "Good

night" which said ood will, he followed

the of the key in the lock and the

sound of the bolts as they sped home told Tavannes that he was a

prisoner