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The leader cried, "To hell with his safe-conduct! Say your prayers!"

But all were not of his e faces--the

faces, for the s--flashed

an avaricious gleao safe! For so has an invincible fascination A

man thrust himself forward

"Ay, I'll have it!" he cried "Give it here!"

"It is yours," Count Hannibal answered, "if you will carry ten words to

Marshal Tavannes--when I a hand on his shoulder

"And Marshal Tavannes will pay you finely," he said

But Maudron, the man who had offered, shook off the hand

"If I take the rim aside "Do you think e! Give me the

paper"

"You swear you will take it?"

Theit, but he perjured himself and went

forward The others would have pressed round too, half in envy, half in

scorn; but Tavannes by a gesture stayed them

"Gentle man is

not ing the claim and assured that their victio round the table to him