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for Count Hannibal's hand, though they were unable to decipher the

contents--he had found no difficulty inhis way to her

He had learned before he entered that Tavannes was abroad, and are,

therefore, that he ran little risk But his betrothed, who knew nothing

of his adventures in the interval, saw in hireatest risk, across unnu with

blood And though she had never eh she had never called hi she abandoned herself to hiot for the tiht only of hiht into the room a breath

of Poitou, and the sea, and the old days, and the old life; and at the

sight of whom the horrors of the last two days fell from her--for the

moment

And Mada The

least nonville hih much that day But even his heart swelled, partly

with pride, partly with thankfulness that he had returned to one who

loved him so well Fate had been kinder to him than he deserved; but he

need not confess that now When he had brought off the coup which he

had in his et that he had entertained other

ideas