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"I wonder what you would do," she said, "if the old lover followed us,

and she went off with hio," he answered coldly, and without looking up

"But if he rode off with her?"

"She would come back on her feet!"

Madaainst that She had the woman's

inclination to hide a wohed, to do more than play with the formidable man hom so few

dared to play Now, stung by his tone and his assurance, she must needs

show him that his trustfulness had no base And, as so often happens in

the circumstances, she went a little farther than the facts bore her

"Any way, he has followed us so far!" she cried viciously

"M de Tignonville?"

"Yes I saw hi She left me and

went into the little coppice He ca, and went to join her"

"How did he cross the brook?"

Mada simples," she

said "He scared him And he crawled away"

"Then he did not cross?"

"No I did not say he did!"

"Nor speak to her?"