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He caht not by way of his own peril, but of

Mademoiselle's; which affected him in so novel a fashion that he wondered

at his folly At last, tired of watching the shadohich the draught

set dancing on the wall, he drew his cloak about hiil the previous night, and in a few ht had struck About two the light in the lanthorn burned low in

the socket, and with a soft sputtering went out For an hour after that

the rooreyer

for the river an to creep into the rooain an hour passed, and the sun was rising above Montreuil, and here

and there the river began to shiht when the sleeper awoke, and sat up, his face

expectant So had roused hiilance which a life of danger instils, had

not deceived hie; men who shuffled

their feet iht happened to

hie him? Count Hannibal rose and

stole across the boards to the door, and, setting his ear to it,

listened

He listened while aslowly

Then, for the third part of a second, he turned his head, and his eyes