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Through? Yes, through, the as clear before theht with

its screams and curses died away behind them The horses swayed and all

but sank under them But Badelon knew it no ti on the road behind, and at any ed on until the cots of the hamlet appeared on

either side of the way; on, until the road forked and the Countess with

strange readiness cried "The left!"--on, until the beach appeared below

them at the foot of a sharp pitch, and beyond the beach the slow heaving

grey of the ocean

The tide was high The causeway ran through it, a ht a grunt of relief broke froainst the western sky,

rose the gateway and towers of Vrillac; and he saw that, as the Countess

had said, it was a place ten ainst ten hundred!

They stu it;

back The other wo hysterically, yet clinging to their horses and

even urging them; and in a , they reached the drawbridge, and passed under the arch of

the gate beyond

There friendly hands, Carlat's foreht, and the Countess saw, as in a dreaate, where she had played, a child, agloith lantern-