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A cry went up fro towards hirin of exquisite pain, yet in words of unconquerable derision "You may have my sword now, Monsieur l'Officier," he said, and sank back, swooning

With an oath, the musketeer stepped forward He obeyed Chatellerault to the letter, by kneeling beside hi the sword Then he ordered a couple of his men to take up the body

"Is he dead?" asked some one; and some one else replied, "Not yet, but he soon will be"

Two of the musketeers bore him into the inn and laid hio, he had driven a bargain with Roxalanne A cloak rolled into a pilloas thrust under his head, and there we left hie of his captors, the landlord, Saint-Eustache, and La Fosse the latter inspired, I doubt not, by that morbidity which is so often a feature of the poetic ony of arments, I disposed myself to repair at once to the Hotel de l'Epee, there to seek Roxalanne, that I ht at last make my confession

As we stepped out into the street, where the dusk was now thickening, I turned to Castelroux to inquire how Saint-Eustache came into Chatellerault's company

"He is of the family of the Iscariot, I should opine," answered the Gascon "As soon as he had news that Chatellerault was co's Commissioner, he repaired to hi rebels to justice He urged that his thorough acquaintance with the province should render hi, as also that he had had particular opportunities of becos on the part of "

"Mort Dieu!" I cried, "I had suspected so of such a nature You do well to call hiine: I have knowledge of this--ae He was until lately a rebel hih of a lukewarm quality What reasons have driven him to such work, do you know?"

"The same reason that impelled his forefather, Judas of old The desire to enrich himself For every hitherto unsuspected rebel that shall be brought to justice and whose treason shall be proven by his agency, he claims the half of that rebel's confiscated estates"