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His lip trelance

"Indeed--indeed, , when I cut hireat a fool but that youwhat I know of you, you will be stripped of your ill-gotten gains, and broken on the wheel for a double traitor--a betrayer of your fellow-rebels"

"But you will not do that, monsieur?" he cried "It would be unworthy in you"

At that I laughed in his face "Heart of God! Are you to be what you please, and do you still expect that , and, by my faith, Monsieur de Eustache, I will do it, if you compel me!"

He reddened and moved his foot uneasily Perhaps I did not take the best ith hi fear in his heart; that aloneupon him at the same time the insults I could not repress, I may have aroused his resistance, and excited his desire above all else to thwart me

"What do you want of ance which al the time ripe to make a plain tale of it, "to withdraw your men, and to ride back to Toulouse without Monsieur de Lavedan, there to confess to the Keeper of the Seals that your suspicions were unfounded, and that you have culled evidence that the Vico's brother"

He looked at me in amazement--amusedly, alentlemen in Toulouse," said he

"Aye, ma foi, a most likely story," said I "When they co by not apprehending the Vico, they will have little difficulty in believing you"

"But what of this evidence you refer to?"

"You have, I take it, discovered no incriainst the Vicomte?"

"No, monsieur, it is true that I have not--"

He stopped and bit his lip,him aware of his indiscretion

"Very well, then, you must invent some evidence to prove that he was in no way, associated with the rebellion"

"Monsieur de Bardelys," said he very insolently, "aste time in idle words If you think that I will i you or the Vicoiously at fault"