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But as darkness came on and cloaked the little troop, and the storan to rumble in the west, his distaste for the

business waxed The suan to play

across the sky revealed not only the broad glea stream, bethich

and a wooded hill their road ran, but the faces of his coht on the bloody enterprise

towards which they were set Nervous and ill at ease, the es of that enterprise: the stealthy entrance

through the ay, the ascent through the trap, the surprise, the

slaughter in the sleeping-chamber And either because he had lived for

days in the victiuments he had

addressed to another, the prospect shook his soul

In vain he told himself that this was the oppressor; he saw only thedissolution in his

eyes And when the rider, behind whoreat distance before thenes's Chapel, hard by the inn, he could have cried with the best

Catholic of them all, "Inter pontem et fontem, Domine!" Nay, some such

words did pass his lips

For the man before him turned halfway in his saddle "What?" he asked

But the Huguenot did not explain