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"God help us, neur de Richelieu is likely to have his ith us But let that be for the present You are here, and you are safe As yet no suspicion rests on Lavedan I was, as I have said, too late for the fight, and so I caht serve the Cause in whatever other wayGaston d'Orleans, and, that I may continue so to do, I pray that suspicion nore me If they were to learn of it at Toulouse or of hoith money and in other ways I have helped this rebellion--I make no doubt that my head would be the forfeit I should be asked to pay"

I was aghast at the freedoentleer

"But tell me, Monsieur de Lesperon," resumed my host, "how is it with you?"

I started in fresh astonishment

"Ho do you know that I aine I had spoken so unreservedly to a ? Think better of me, monsieur, I beseech you I found these letters in your pocket last night, and their superscription gave me your identity Your name is well known to me," he added "My friend Monsieur de Marsac has often spoken of you and of your devotion to the Cause, and it affords me no little satisfaction to be of some service to one whom by repute I have already learned to esteeroaned Here was a predica me for that miserable rebel I had succoured at Mirepoix, and whose letters I bore upon ht restore theive me at the laststory of his treason into hten him? What if I were to tell him that I was not Lesperon--no rebel at all, in fact--but Marcel de Bardelys, the King's favourite? That he would account ht; but assuredly he would see that er to his own; he must fear betrayal fro extreme measures Rebels were not addicted to an excess of niceness in their methods, and it was more likely that I should rise no more from the luxurious bed on which his hospitality had laid erated matters, and the Vicomte were not quite so bloodthirsty as was usual with his order, even if he chose to accept et what he had said, he must nevertheless--in view of his indiscretion--demand er with Chatellerault?