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'Dear madam,' said she, 'why do you start so? one would think you knehat has happened' 'What has happened?' said E to

coht before last, you know, , Annette,' replied her lady in a ht before last, arden' 'A robber!' said E tone 'I suppose he was a robber, madam What else could he be?' 'Where did you see hi back towards the chateau

'It was not I that saw hiardener It was

twelve o'clock at night, and, as he was coo

the back way into the house, what should he see--but soate! So, with that, Jean guessed how

it was, and he went into the house for his gun'

'His gun!' exclaiun; and then he came out into the court to watch him

Presently, he sees hiate, and look up at the house for a long time; and I warrant he

examined it well, and settledhe should break in at'

'But the gun,' said Eood tiate, and was coht proper to

ask hiain, and bade him say who he

was, and what he wanted But the man would do neither; but turned upon

his heel, and passed into the garden again Jean knew then well enough

hoas, and so he fired after hiun; but, Holy Virgin! what makes you look

so pale, madam? The man was not killed,--I dare say; but if he was, his

co, to look

for the body, it was gone, and nothing to be seen but a track of blood

on the ground Jean followed it, that he arden, but it was lost in the grass, and'-

Annette was interrupted: for Eround, if the girl had not caught her, and supported

her to a bench, close to them