Traitor and True

rom those which she occupied (while being served outside by the same corridor running at right

piring husband. She knew that, but a league or so off was the frontier of France, while she did not know what the myrmidons of that powerful country might not be able to do against a woman of her position who had fled from a husband possessing the influence which her husband undoubtedly possessed, maniac though he might be. And, not knowing what she feared, she feared doubly. Italia

r Jacquette she had chosen the one next to hers on the right, with, right of that, a room for La Truaumont, and, on the left of her room, the one at the other end for Humphrey. Thus, when the outer main door was securely fastened and her door fastened on the

the Marquise de Villiers-Bordéville had done from Luxeuil and, as has been seen, had arrived later. All sought their rooms, that is to say except La Truaumont, who, on bidding the Duchess and Jacquette "good-n

hearty supper well washed down with wine, his comrade was keeping him good company, and the soldiers were eating and drinking

thy Switzers. Me confound! if t'were not composed so much of veal--for 'tis veal in the rago?t, veal for the grosse-pièce, veal in the potage, and, I do think, veal it will b

Besides, it costs you nothing. You should be con

fe into a fillet of veal. "By which time the calves may ha

ow you comport yourself here. This city is given up to good works. E

e," muttered the swash

, when you walk abroad to-morrow be careful. For if you get laid by the heels we shall not stop to haul you up again, but shall go on. At least the Duche

therto spoken, he being engaged on a huge ve

l you die--nenni! For some prisons there are I know of--or shou

still deeper, nor with any brawlings with those Lorrainers over there. Keep your swords in your sheaths. There i

in the shape of two such arrivals as the Duchesse and the Marquise--the watchers might have thought he took a strange way to reach the room allotted to him. For that room was at the farther end of the corridor which ran to the right of the stairs, while he, stopping at the

ted the taste of Emérance some hour or two before--then the bolt was shot back gently--drawn back so

it is you. Is the

iving

enough to give admission to him and closed it again, and

motioned him to a chair in front of the now almost extinct fire, she

man in her salon in an inn at nearly midnight, La Truaumont said, "He is well. I left him so. And he

Almost

may yet pay a dear pri

ah

ayal, may bring to him and you and me and all

o that he trusts me. I longed to serve him since first I

happy?" La Trua

m almost

"Affinius is on his way here. But this you know. He may arrive at an

ch. Well! what

rmandy. You

ut--you! To Normandy? What then of----" with a s

ster. With her go Fleur de Mai and Boisfleury. Brutes, without doubt! yet savage, ferocious ones. Good swordsmen both and reckless. I am

ffinius to

Dutch fleet will attack, which is again to be made known by an arranged piece of false news on the subject of the King's creation of

De Beau

ur old Norman aristocracy will accept a man

What?

ecome, if all goes well, the head of a Republic greater than that of Holland, which follows Spain in her attempts to help

of Emérance sparkl

become

great family which has for its prou

no chance, no likelihood of their ever reaching so dizzy a height as that of king. Let us see what th

"A king!" she whispered, "of

within her, her brain was on fire at the very imagining of such a thing as

all goes well, the ruler of a province, our province. A dream, too, that may have a rude awakening. What was it he said to me ere I left Paris? That, if he failed, the cross roads outside some town, a gallows outside the Bastille, would more like

elve; as, too, she saw the last spark of the last log go out. "See the fire is dead

n den Enden s

e that all was quiet in passages and corridors, she sent La Truaumont