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"How shall the na the Duke of Montmorency's papers convict me of treason, since I tell you that I ahtest, the reh duty, messieurs, you would ask me rather to explain how, if what I state be true, I come to be confounded with Lesperon and arrested in his place Then, ht seek to test the accuracy of what state is not to judge but to ed eyes, holding ientle a veil"

Chatellerault's cynical srew broader as my speech proceeded and stirred up the rancour in the hearts of those august gentlemen The Keeper of the Seals hite and red by turns, and when I paused there was an impressive silence that lasted for some moments At last the President leant over to confer in a whisper with Chatellerault Then, in a voice forcedly cal--he asked me, "Who do you insist that you are, monsieur?"

"Once already have I told you, and I venture to think that otten I am the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, Marquis of Bardelys, of Bardelys in Picardy"

A cunning grin parted his thin lips

"Have you any witnesses to identify you?"

"Hundreds,salvation already within rasp

"Name some of them"

"I will name one--one whose word you will not dare to doubt"

"That is?"

"His Majesty the King I am told that he is on his way to Toulouse, and I but ask,further with my trial"

"Is there no other witness of whoht be produced more readily For if you can, indeed, establish the identity you claiuish in prison for soer had all departed out of it, which I--like a fool--i

"My friends, Monsieur le Garde des Sceaux, are all either in Paris or in His Majesty's train, and so not likely to be here before him There is my intendant, Rodenard, and there are my servants--souedoc, and for whoht succeed in finding within a few days if they have not yet determined to return to Paris in the belief that I am dead"