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Her eyes were again cast down, and she took a step in the direction of the

"But yes Your promise was to save my father from the scaffold You have done so, and I make no doubt you have done as much to reduce the term of his banishment as lay within your power Yes, monsieur, I aho! The resolve that I had for reo my way Yet not for all that resolve--not for a hundred such resolves--could I have gone thus One kindly word, one kindly glance at least would I take to comfort me I would tell her in plain words of ood, some sense of honour in one

"Ganyneur?"

"Bid theher eyes very wide, and her glance travelled from me to Rodenard with its unspoken question But even as she looked at hi, left the roole of spurs across the hall and out into the courtyard We heard his raucous voice utter a word of co of harness, and all the bustle of preparation

"Why have you ordered your men to mount?" she asked at last

"Because ?" said she Her eyes were lowered now, but a frown suggested their expression towhither?"

"Hence," I answered "That for thethat hindered a clear utterance Then, "Adieu!" said I, and I abruptly put forth lance met mine fearlessly, if puzzled

"Do youLavedan--thus?"

"So that I leave, what signifies the rew in her eyes; her cheeks seeht that--that we ain"

"'Sh! mademoiselle, I implore you," I cried "I take shame at the memory of it Alain which first brought me to Lavedan The shah, perchance, you think it not I a out the shame of the latter one It was unworthy in me, mademoiselle, but I loved you so dearly that it seemed to me that no matter how I came by you, I should rest content if I but won you I have since seen the error if it, the injustice of it I will not take what is not freely given And so, farewell"