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In a rooateway, into which, as the nearest and most

convenient place, Count Hannibal had been carried from his saddle, a man

sat sideways in the narrow elued The room, which formed part of the oldest block of the

chateau, and was ordinarily the quarters of the Carlats, possessed two

other s, deep-set indeed, yet superior to that through which

Bigot--for he it was--peered so persistently But the larger s

looked southwards, across the bay--at this h theaze and fixed him to his irksome seat, lay elsewhere The loophole

coh it the Norman could

see who caly object which

rose where the causeway touched the land

On a flat truckle-bed behind the door lay Count Hannibal, his injured leg

protected froht with

fever, and his untended beard and straggling hair heightened the wildness

of his aspect But he was in possession of his senses; and as his gaze

passed froot at theto the old Free Co a piece of wood into a splint, an

expression almost soft crept into his harsh face