Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-08-20
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too unnatural! Her own sister! II,
own brother-in-law!
I hastened to change the subjec
1.-THE Payannes," ! made shift to sa
must have had five minutes start"
More" Croisette answered, IF m,
dame and he got away at once, II .
has gone well with them, and they hsv
not been stopped in the streets, the
should be at Mirepoix's by now. The
seemed to be pretty sure that he woul
take them In"
"Ah!" | sighed. what fools we wer
to bring madame from that place! !
we had not meddled with her affair
we might have reached Louis long ago
our Louis, ! mean
I "True," Croisette answered, softly
"but remember that then we shoult
not have saved the other Louis-as
trust we have. He would still be II
pallayicini's hands. Come, Anne, let US
think IT Is all for the best he added
his face shining with q steady courage
that shamed me. ITO the rescue!
Heaven will help us to be in time yeti
"Ay, to the rescued" ! replied, catch
ing his spirit "First to the right,
think, second to the left, first on the
right again. That was the direction
given lis, was 1t not? The house oppo-
site q book shop with the sign Of the
Head Of Erasmus. Forward, boys! We
may do it yet
But before | pursue our fortunes
farther let me explain. The room we
had guarded so jealousy was empty!
The plan had been mine and was
proud Of it. For once Croisette had
fallen into his rightful place. My fight
from the gate, the vain attempt to close
the house--these were all designed to
draw the assailants to one spot. Pavan-
mes and his wifc-the latter hastily dis
guised as a boy-had hidden behind
the door of the hutch by the gates
the porter's hutch, and had slipped out
and fled in the first confusion Of the at
tack.
For the servants, as we learned aft
EDWARDS, who had hidden themselves
in the lower part of the house, got away
in the same manner, though some Of
them--they were but few in all-wcre
stopped as Huguenots and killed be-
fore the day ended. | had the more
reason to hope that Pavannes and his
wife would get clehr off, inasmuch as
had given the dukes ring to him,
it might serve him in strait,
ind believing that we would have little
10 fear ourselves, once clear of his
rouse; unless we should meet the VI
lame indeed.
We did not meet him, as 1t turned
,ut but before we had traverscd a
quarter of the distance we had to 60
We found that fears based on reason
we're not the only terrors we had to re-
list. Pavannes' house, where we had
hitherto been, stood at some distance
rom the center Ct the blood storm
which had enwrapped unhappy Paris
hat morning. 1t was several hundred
aces from the Rue de Bethisy where
he admiral lived, and what with
Is comparative relnoteness and the ex-
itement of our little drama, we had not
TENDED much to the fury of the bells,
he shots and cries and uproar which
reclaimed the state Of the city. We
ad not pictured the scenes which were
so near. Now in the streets
he truth broke upon us, and drove the
|ood from our checks. A hundred
ards, the turning Of n corner, sufiiced.
'e who but yesterday left the country,
ho only a week before were boys.