Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-25

A14alUte we Eau turned corner. Gut
were out of sight of the horse.
They VIII take gentleman's wogd
another time" l said with a quiet smile
as put up my sword
Il would like 10 see her face at this
moment" Croisetse replied You saw
Nine d'O?"
l shook my head. not answering. !
was not sure, and had queer. sicllen-
ing dread of the subject. If had seen
her. l had seen-oh. il was too horrible.
too unnatural. Her own sister. Her
own hrother-in-law!
l FASTENED 10 change the subject
The Pavannes," l made shift to say.
must have had five minutes start"
More" Croisette answered. IF ma
dame and he got away at once. if all
has gone well with them. and they have
not been stopped in the streets, they
should be at Mirepoix's by now. They
seemed to be pretty sure that he Guild
take them in
All" / sighed. What fools we were
TO bring madame fnom that place If
we had not meddled with her affairs
we might have reached Louis long ago
our Louis, / mean"
.'True,' Croisette answered. softly;
shut remember that then we should
not have saved the other Louis-as /
trust we have. He would still be in
Pallavicini's hands. Come, Anne, let us
! think it is all for the BEST" he added,
his face shining with a steady courage
that shamed me- ITO the rescue!
Heaven will help us to be in time yeti"
SAY, 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 us, was il not? The house oppo-
site book shop with the sign of the
Head of Erasmus. Forward, boys! We
may do it yet"
But before l pursue our fortunes
farther let me explain. The room we
had guarded so jealousy was empty!
The plan had been mine and i was
proud of it. For once Croisette had
fallen into his rightful place. My flight
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 wife-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
erwards, 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-were
stopped as Huguenots and killed be-
fore the day ended. | had the more
reason to hope that Paeannes and his
wife would get clear off, inasmuch as
| had given the dukes ring to him,
thinking it might serve him in a strait,
and believing that we would have little
TO fear ourselves, once clear of his
house; unless we should meet the vi
dame indeed.
We did not meet him, as it turned
cut: but before we had traverscd
quarter of the distance we had to go
we found that fears based on reason
were not the only terrors we had to re-
sist. Pavannes' house, where we had
hitherto been, stood at some distance
from the center Of the blood storm
which had enwrapped unhappy Paris
, that morning. 1t was several hundred
PAGES from the Rue de Bethisy where
The admiral lived, and what with
his comparative reInoteness and the eX-
citement of our little drama, we had not
attended much to the fury of the bells,
he shots and cries and uproar which
proclaimed the state of the city We
had not pictured the scenes which were
happening so near. Now in the streets
the truth broke upon us, and drove the
blood from our cheeks. A hundred
wards. the turning of corner, sufffced
We who but yesterday left the country,
who only a week before were boys,