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"Before you proceed to dress, e your duty, n to his ar place, he turned to the Vicoies for having interrupted their sluuest He advanced in his excuse the troublous nature of the times, and threw in a bunch of malisons at the circumstances which forced upon soldiers the odious duties of the tipstaff, hoping that ould think hientleed

From my clothes they took the letters addressed to Lesperon which that poor gentle these there was one from the Duc d'Orleans hiiment Besides these, they took Monsieur de Marsac's letter of two days ago, and the locket containing the picture of Mademoiselle de Marsac

The papers and the portrait they delivered to the Captain, who took theust that coloured all his actions in connection with nance for his catchpoll work do I owe it that at theout he offered to let me ride without the annoyance of an escort if I would pass hi, then, in the hall of the chateau His men were already in the courtyard, and there were only present Monsieur le Vico the look of sorrow that haunted hishim beyond the bounds of his authority, and it touched ed his shoulders impatiently

"Cap de Dieu!" he cried--he had a way of swearing that reenerosity, enial to the spirit of a gentle himself And then, Monsieur de Lesperon, are we not fellow-countrymen? Are we not Gascons both? Pardieu, there is no more respected a name in the whole of Gascony than that of Lesperon, and that you belong to so honourable a faht favours as it may be in my power to show you"