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"La Tribe!"

"It is truly you?"

"Well--I think so," the young man answered

The minister lifted up his eyes and seemed to call the trees and the

clouds and the birds to witness

"Now," he cried, "I know that I a from the day when the hen saved us in the haycart in

Paris! Now I know that all is forgiven and all is ordained, and that the

faithful of Angers shall to-morrow live and not die!" And with a face

radiant, yet solenonville looked sharply before him "How far ahead are

they?" he asked His tone, hard and matter-of-fact, was little in

harue before you, at the ferry You are in pursuit

of the rim "I have five behind

me--of your kidney, M la Tribe They are from the Arsenal They have

lost one his wife, and one his son The three others--"

"Yes?"

"Sweethearts," Tignonville answered dryly And he cast a singular look

at the minister

But La Tribe's mind was so full of one matter, he could think only of

that