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But I was not ed ht of hiht arouse my pity, and I was in no mood to waste upon such a one as Chatellerault even on his deathbed--a quality of which I had so dire a need just then for o," said I, after deliberation "Tell hiive hiiveness; tell him that I bear him no rancour, and--that he had better make his will, to save me trouble hereafter, if he should chance to die"

I said this because I had no o in quest of his next heirs and advise them that my late Picardy estates were now their property

Castelroux sought yet to persuade me to visit the Count, but I held fir Toulouse to-day," I announced

"Whither do you go?"

"To hell, or to Beaugency--I scarce knohich, nor does ita , asked no questions upon matters that he accounted secret

"But the King?" he ventured presently

"His Majesty has already dispensed o that day Ithat it was too late, I postponed n no reason forfrom the inertness that pervaded me, perhaps some mysterious hand detained ht at the Hotel de l'Epee was one of those contingencies which, though slight and seereat issues Had I departed that day for Beaugency, it is likely that you had never heard of me--leastways, not from my own pen--for in what so far I have told you, without that which is to follow, there is haply little that orth the labour of setting down

In the ot no farther than Grenade, where we lay the night oncedelayed le day, did it coht have been too late

It was high noon of the morrow Our horses stood saddled; indeed, some of my men were already ency was reached--and my two coaches were both ready for the journey The habits of a lifetime are not so easy to abandon even when Necessity raises her co voice