a serious beat of admiration that was honey to the girl and through her to me it seemed to wipe us clean of all james more s and the next moment he was just himself again and now by your leave my said he this is a very but be a thing nearer to the gallows than he s caring for and i think this is a grand place to be leaving the word recalled us to some wisdom ran upstairs and returned with our saddle bags and james more s i picked up s bundle where she had dropped it on the stair and we were setting forth out of that dangerous house when stopped the way with cries and he had whipped under a table when the swords were drawn but now he was as bold as a lion there was his bill to be settled there was a chair broken had sat among his dinner things james more had fled here i cried pay yourself and flung him down some d for i thought it was no time to be he sprang upon that money and we passed him by and ran forth into the open upon three sides of the house were and closing in a little nearer to us james more waved his hat as if to hurry them and right behind him like some foolish person holding up its hands wore the sails of the turning gave but the one glance and laid himself do vn to run he carried a great weight in james more s but i think he would as soon have lost his life as cast away that which was his revenge and he ran so that i was distressed to follow him and and to see the girl bounding at my side as soon as we appeared they cast off all disguise upon the other side aud the pursued us with shouts and view we had a start of some two hundred yards and they were but l after all that could not hope to better us at such an exercise i suppose they were armed but did not care to use their pistols on french ground and as soon as i p that we not only held our advantage but drew a little away i began to feel quite easy of the issue for all which it was a hot brisk bit of work so long as it lasted was still far and when we over a and found a c of the garrison marching on the other side on some i could very well understand the word that had he stopped running at once and at his brow they re a real folk the french nation says he conclusion no sooner were we safe within the walls of than we held a very necessary council of war on our position we had taken a daughter from her father at the sword s point any judge would give her back to him at once and by all clap me and into jail and though we had an argument upon our side in captain s letter neither nor i were very keen to be using it in public upon all accounts it seemed the most prudent to carry the girl to paris to the hands of her own of who would be very willing to help his on the one hand and not at all anxious to james upon the other we made but a slow journey of it up for was not so good at the riding as the running and had scarce sat in a saddle since the five but we made it out at last reached paris early of a sabbath morning and made all speed imder s guidance to find he was finely lodged and lived in a good style having a on the fund as well as private means greeted like one of his own house and seemed altogether very civil and discreet but not particularly open we asked of the news of james more poor james said he and shook his head and smiled so that i thought he knew further than he meant to tell then we showed liim s letter and he drew a long face at that poor james said he again well there are worse folk than james more too but this is dreadful bad tut tut he must have forgot himself entirely i this is a most letter but for all that gentlemen i cannot see what we would want to it public for it s an ill bird that his own nest and we are all folk and all upon this we were all agreed save perhaps and still more upon the question of our marriage which took in his own hands as though there had been no such person as james more and gave away with very pretty manners and agreeable compliments in french it was not till all was over and our drunk that he told us james was in that city whither he had preceded us some days and where he now lay sick and uke to die i thought i saw by my wife s face what way her inclination pointed and let us go see him then said i if it is your pleasure said these were early days he was lodged in the same quarter of the city with his chief in a great house upon a corner and we were guided up to the garret where ho lay by the sound of it seemed ho had just borrowed a set of them from to amuse his sickness though he was no such hand as was his brother rob he made good music of the kind and it was strange to observe the french folk crowding on the stairs and some of them conclusion laughing he lay propped in a the first look of him i saw he was upon his 