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"The bucket rises through a trap?"

"In the gallery? To be sure, monsieur In the corner beyond the fourth

door There shall he fall into the pit which he dug for others, and the

evil that he planned rebound on his own head!"

La Tribe was silent

"What think you of it?" Tignonville asked

"That it is cleverly planned," the minister answered

"No more than that?"

"No nonville replied in a surly tone "And we may as

well eat, ourselves Lead the horses into the wood And do you, Perrot,

call Tuez-les-Moines, who is forward Two hours' riding should bring us

to La Fleche We need not leave here, therefore, until the sun is low

To dinner! To dinner!"

Probably he did not feel the indifference he affected, for his face as he

ate grew darker, and frolance, barbed with

suspicion, at the h the men ate apart He was in doubt, indeed, as to his own

feelings His instinct and his reason were at odds Through all,

however, a single purpose, the rescue of Angers, held good, and gradually

other things fell into their places When the ed him, he was ready