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"I shall not tell you," she repeated, standing before him in the

fearlessness of scorn "Another step and I rouse the house! M de

Tignonville, to you who know me, I swear that if this man does not

retire--"

"He is in one of these roononville's answer "In which? In

which?"

"Search the in its contempt

"Try them Rouse my women, alarm the house! And when you have his

people at your throats--five as they will be to one of you--thank your

own littered "You will not tell us?" he cried

"No!"

"Then--"

But as the fanatic sprang on her, La Tribe flung his ared him back

"It would be madness," he cried "Are youwith hiives the alarm--and he may be

in any one of these four rooms, you cannot be sure which--we are undone"

He looked for support to Tignonville, whose irl

he had anticipated, and who had since listened sullenly "We have

obtained e need Will you requite Madaained it for us

at her own risk--"

"It is Monsieur I would requite," Tignonvilleviolence to her?" the ripping one another "I tell you, to go on is to risk