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"You have heard," he said "Do you bla "I cannot" He had been

for a while beyond the range of these feelings; and in the greenwood,

under God's heaven, with the sunshine about him, they jarred on him Yet

he could not blame men who had suffered as these had suffered; ere

s which it is

possible for one man to inflict on another "I dare not," he continued

sorrowfully "But in God's naher and a nobler

errand"

"We need none," Tignonville muttered impatiently

"Yet many others need you," La Tribe answered in a tone of rebuke "You

are not aware that thefor

the hands of thetheers as his Majesty has done in Paris?"

The ers!"

they swore "The blood that he has shed shall choke him by the way! And

as he would do to others it shall be done to him"

La Tribe shuddered as he listened, as he looked Try as he would, the

thirst of these eance appalled him