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The landlordhis reply Then the stairs creaked under his heavy tread

In my room I told him in half a dozen words as afoot For answer, he swore a great oath that the landlord had mulled a stoup of wine for hio below and fetch the wine, telling the landlord that I, too had a fancy for it

"But what of Antoine?" he asked "They will drug hie this affair, you and I, without his help If they did not drug hied lies his safety"

As I bade hi measure This I eht take it back to the host with ive them confidence that the as clear and smooth for them

Thereafter there befell precisely that which already you will be expecting, and nothing that you cannot guess It was perhaps at the end of an hour's silent waiting that one of them came We had left the door unbarred so that his entrance was unhampered But scarce was he within when out of the dark, on either side of him, rose Gilles and I Before he had realized it, he was lifted off his feet and deposited upon the bed without a cry; the only sound being the tinkle of the knife that dropped froreat knee in his stomach, and Gilles's hands at his throat, he was assured in unequivocal terhtest outcry ould ht We trussed him hand and foot with the bedclothes, and then, whilst he lay impotent and silent in his terror, I proceeded to discuss the situation with him

I pointed out that we knew that what he had done he had done at Saint-Eustache's instigation, therefore the true guilt was Saint-Eustache's and upon him alone the punishment should fall But ere this could come to pass, he himself must add his testimony to ours--mine and Rodenard's If he would come to Toulouse and do that make a full confession of how he had been set to do this --the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache, as the real culprit, should be the only one to suffer the penalty of the law If he would not do that, why, then, he must stand the consequences hi to Toulouse in the