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'Nobody,' replied the Count; 'the rest of my people are now scattered

about, I scarcely knohere Go, Ludovico, collect theether, and

look out yourself, and listen if you hear the feet of mules'

Ludovico then hurried away, and the Count consulted as to theSt Foix, who could not have borne the th would have supported hi, that the banditti, whoeon, Blanche observed that he was

himself wounded, and that his left arm was entirely useless; but he

s

The Count's servants, except tho kept watch at the gate, now

appeared, and, soon after, Ludovico

'I think I hear len,of the torrent beloill not let ht ill serve the

Chevalier,' he added, shewing a bear's skin, fastened to a couple of

long poles, which had been adapted for the purpose of bringing home such

of the banditti as happened to be wounded in their encounters Ludovico

spread it on the ground, and, placing the skins of several goats upon

it, made a kind of bed, into which the Chevalier, as however now

raised upon the