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"At the end of a half-hour his sister entered with Madeether on the terrace, and Madery 'Affairs are exactly as Monsieur de Saint-Eustache has represented them,' said she to her brother At that he swore amaterials At the moment of his departure he desired me to deliver this letter to you, and then rode away in a fury, and, seely, not on the best of terms with Monsieur le Vicomte"

"And his sister?" I asked quickly

"She ith hi his eyes to the ceiling

At least I could breathe freely They were gone, and whatever dae they may have done to the character of poor Rene de Lesperon ere they departed, they were not there, at all events, to denounce y to the shade of the departed Lesperon for all the discredit I was bringing down upon his name, I broke the seal of that th of so

Monsieur [I read], wherever I may chance to , in all faith! If he could butdramatic flavour to the end, his epistle should be worth the trouble of deciphering, for he penned a vile scrawl of pothooks

It is because of this [the letter proceeded] that I have refrained fro The tierous a condition to adht draw the eyes of the Keeper of the Seals upon Lavedan To my respect, then, to Monsieur le Vicomte and to my own devotion to the Cause we mutually serve do you owe it that you still live I a's vengeance

To save myself is a duty that I owe as much to myself as to the Cause But there is another duty, one that I owe hted, and this duty, by God's grace, I will perform before I leave Of your honour, monsieur, ill not speak, for reasons into which I need not enter, and I make no appeal to it But if you have a spark of manhood left, if you are not an utter craven as well as a knave, I shall expect you on the day after toe de la Couronne at Grenade There, monsieur, if you please, ill adjust our differences That you may come prepared, and so that no tith of my sword