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"A fine trusty servant thou!" I cried "Boaster! Had you told us that age and fat living had so stunted your wits as to have extinguished uide at Montauban to show us the way Yet, here, with the sun and the Pyrenees to guide you, even had you no other knowledge, you lose yourself!"

"Monseigneur," he whi my way by the sun and the mountains, and it was thus that I came to this impasse For you may see, yourself, that the road ends here abruptly"

"Ganymede," said I slowly, "e return to Paris--if you do not die of fright 'twixt this and then--I'll find a place for you in the kitchens God send youover the wall, "Attend me, some half-dozen of you," I commanded, and stepped out briskly towards the barn

As the weather-beaten old door creaked upon its rusty hinges, ere greeted by a groan fro moved Surprised, I halted, and waited whilst one of ht in the lanthorn that he carried

By its rays we beheld a pitiable sight in a corner of that building A orous frame, lay stretched upon the straw He was fully dressed even to his great riding-boots, and fro now upon hi shift to divest hith to complete the task Beside him lay a feathered headpiece and a sword attached to a richly broidered baldrick All about him the straas clotted with brown, viscous patches of blood The doublet which had been of sky-blue velvet was all sodden and stained, and inspection showed us that he had been wounded in the right side, between the straps of his breastplate

As we stood about hi fantastic, perhaps, by the dile lanthorn, he atteroan he dropped it back upon the straw that pillowed it Froard lines of pain, a pair of great lustrous blue eyes were turned upon us, abject and pitiful as the gaze of a dumb beast that is stricken mortally

It needed no acuteness to apprehend that we had before us one of yesterday's defeated warriors; one who had spent his last strength in creeping hither to get his dying done in peace Lest our presence should add fear to the agony already upon hi his head, I pillowed it upon my arm