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His ether his air was very fierce and truculent For a ht better of it than to provoke a quarrel, particularly one in which he would be ht be There was an exchange of questionable compliments betwixt the officer and the Count, whereafter, to avoid further unpleasantness, Castelroux conducted looain in the saddle and upon the last stage of our journey, that I offered Castelroux an explanation of ly mad attack upon Chatellerault

"You have done a very rash and unwise thing, retfully, and it was in answer to this that I poured out the whole story I had deter, for Castelroux was now my only hope, and as we rode beneath the stars of that Septeht I made known to him my true identity

I told hier lay between us--withholding the particulars of its nature--which had brought uedoc and into the position wherein he had found and arrested me At first he hesitated to believe me, but when at last I had convinced him by the vehemence of my assurances as much as by the assurances themselves, he expressed such opinions of the Coo out to him

"You see, my dear Castelroux, that you are now entleroaned

"Nay, that need not be My intendant Rodenard and some twenty of my servants should be soht for uedoc and may be found in time"

"It shall be done, monsieur, I promise you," he answered me solemnly "But I implore you not to hope too much from it Chatellerault has it in his power to act promptly, and you may depend that he aste no time after what has passed"

"Still, we may have two or three days, and in those days you must do what you can, my friend"

"You may depend upon me," he promised

"And meanwhile, Castelroux," said I, "you will say no word of this to any one"

That assurance also he gave leareet us