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The signal only was lacking It would come, said some, from Saumur,

where Montsoreau, the Duke of Anjou's Lieutenant-Governor and a Papist,

had his quarters Froht coistrates,

it hispered, were in continuous session, awaiting its coable s, and froard faces looked northward and eastward, and ears sharpened by

fear i of the iron shoes

that carried doom

Doubtless the majority desired--as the majority in France have always

desired--peace But in the purlieus about the cathedral and in the lanes

where the sacristans lived, in convent parlours and college courts, a

all whose livelihood the new faith threatened, was a stir as of a hive

deranged Here was gruistrates--ait? There,

stealthy plannings and arranges Old grudges, new rivalries, a scholar's venom, a

priest's dislike, here was final vent for all None need leave this

feast unsated!

It was a man of this class, sent out for the purpose, who first espied

Count Hannibal's co He bore the news into the town,

and by the tiate, the dusky street