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The minister shook his head The rider wiped the blood froht see the better But he seee patois

She stahts! How

can they find their way? And let six ue, and meet

them Will you let them be butchered between the shore and this?"

But Carlat, who had not been able to collect more than a dozen men, shook

his head; and before she could repeat the order, sounds of battle,

shrill, faint, like cries of hungry seagulls, pierced the darkness which

shrouded the farther end of the causeway The women shrank inward over

the threshold, while Carlat cried to the men at the chains to be ready,

and to some who stood at loopholes above, to blow up their matches and

let fly at his word And then they all waited, the Countess fore darkness They could see nothing

A distant scuffle, an oath, a cry, silence! The same, a little nearer, a

little louder, followed this ti horse Again a rush of feet, the clash of steel, a screaht; then out of the