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diff --git a/57401-8.txt b/57401-0.txt index a8007c7..e8cf2fe 100644 --- a/57401-8.txt +++ b/57401-0.txt @@ -1,30 +1,7 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The King's Scapegoat, by Hamilton Drummond +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 57401 *** -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. -Title: The King's Scapegoat -Author: Hamilton Drummond - -Illustrator: Cyrus Cuneo - -Release Date: June 26, 2018 [EBook #57401] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KING'S SCAPEGOAT *** - - - - -Produced by Al Haines @@ -191,7 +168,7 @@ It was curious, though at the time the coincidence passed unnoticed, but so sure as I pressed Roland hard, rasping the poor willing brute's ribs cruelly with both spurs, just so surely did Martin meet with a trifling accident that delayed him. Once, as we galloped down from La -Crêle to the river, he broke a stirrup leather. Once, too, he dropped +Crêle to the river, he broke a stirrup leather. Once, too, he dropped his ash stick and had to go back for it; and once, as we rode round the pinewood at Berseghem, Ninus picked up a stone. At least, Martin said he did, and in face of his anxious concern as he bent over the upturned @@ -516,7 +493,7 @@ throat was a curse that language could not match for expression or better for force. Round the north-west of the smoking house we dashed, our horses' mouths -frothing even in that short furlong; round to the grey façade where +frothing even in that short furlong; round to the grey façade where stood the great door flush with the huge stone pillars from which it hung. @@ -1476,39 +1453,39 @@ Louis, I try smooth means first, but, also like my brother Louis, I do not stop there; and, again like my brother Louis, when I squeeze I squeeze hard. - _Necessité fait gars mesprendre, + _Necessité fait gars mesprendre, Et faim saillir le loup des boys,_ -"François, the one and only King of Song, has spoken!" +"François, the one and only King of Song, has spoken!" -"François? What? Art thou that François Villon?" +"François? What? Art thou that François Villon?" The fellow laughed as he bowed with a flourish. "Monsieur has said it!" -"François Villon? And not hanged yet?" +"François Villon? And not hanged yet?" Again he laughed, but this time without merriment; the gibe and the contempt were alike bitter. "Again Monsieur has said it! Twice, no, when I come to think of it, -thrice Montfauçon has sighed for me, and yet I live. By my faith! I +thrice Montfauçon has sighed for me, and yet I live. By my faith! I begin to think I shall die in my bed if I do not first starve in the streets!" -"François Villon----" +"François Villon----" -"I have said it, I have said it; King François Villon, François the -first, François the last, François Villon, the lover of all the Muses +"I have said it, I have said it; King François Villon, François the +first, François the last, François Villon, the lover of all the Muses and every pretty woman in the world! And now that you know me, -Monsieur, your purse, that François Villon the man and his tax +Monsieur, your purse, that François Villon the man and his tax collectors may drink and bless you. What? You will not? Ah, be persuaded, be gently persuaded, what is a purse or two, a handful of beggarly coins, compared with--Mademoiselle is with you, is she not? Then God forbid that I should finish the comparison. As a poet I hate -ugly realities, as a man I love pretty women, and François Villon the +ugly realities, as a man I love pretty women, and François Villon the man--Alas! we all have our passions, our frailties, you understand; eh? Look at us, we can be rough at times, just as our brother Louis can, and not having seen Mademoiselle's face I do not know if it is worth @@ -1591,9 +1568,9 @@ twisting flats of steel. Then the end came, but from without, not from within; a knocking at the inn door that grew louder and louder, and as it grew the babel within sobered. The kennel crew knew its meaning better than we. By ones and -twos, and then in a swarm, the mob fled. François the First and Last, +twos, and then in a swarm, the mob fled. François the First and Last, King of Song, and High Priest of all the rest of his blatancy, heard -Montfauçon call for the fourth time, and had no heart to dance upon +Montfauçon call for the fourth time, and had no heart to dance upon nothing to the music of that sinister voice. @@ -1667,7 +1644,7 @@ unoccupied hand. know and vouch for Hellewyl of Solignac. You have horses? Get them, then; I give you ten minutes. Mademoiselle," and he turned to the hooded woman who, with her companion, had remained in the shelter of -the alcove throughout the _melée_. How she had borne herself I could +the alcove throughout the _melée_. How she had borne herself I could only guess, for her face was still hidden, but she had neither uttered cry nor hampered us in any way, "this is a lesson, a book without words, and a child may read the pictures. I desire peace, and war is @@ -1708,7 +1685,7 @@ chains were drawn to break the rush of the mob in times of disaffection. During their long tramp, those immediately in front of us spoke little. To avoid the offal flung on the streets and the holes half filled with slime strained all their attention in the dim light. But as we paused -where the Rue des Poulies joins the Rue Saint Honoré, I heard Monsieur +where the Rue des Poulies joins the Rue Saint Honoré, I heard Monsieur de Commines say: "Is it wise, so near the Louvre?" @@ -2105,7 +2082,7 @@ voice, an impulse in her act, I guessed that Mademoiselle was not one to judge a man wholly by the outside. A true and noble womanliness had at all times rung through her pleading, and if that were not enough there was this, she had flung no scorn even on such a feeder on garbage -as this François Villon, until the man's foul mind hinted a license. +as this François Villon, until the man's foul mind hinted a license. Then, indeed, her soul flashed out. "Will no man rid us of this wretch!" It was the foul mind she scorned, and not the poverty peeping through his tatters. No! Monsieur de Commines' jest, so far from @@ -2283,14 +2260,14 @@ with his master. That night we lay at Anneau where, because of the inn's cramped space, I slept on hay, and was glad of its softness for my wound still stung -me. Next night our quarters were at Vendôme, and so Tours was reached +me. Next night our quarters were at Vendôme, and so Tours was reached before dinner on the third day. There Martin and I dropped off; Plessis, which lay a mile or so to the south-west, was not for us as yet. "Put up at the Cross of Saint Martin," was Monsieur de Commines' last advice. "It is not the best inn in the city, but the other is in the -Rue des Trois Pucelles, and so too near Confrère Tristan's for comfort, +Rue des Trois Pucelles, and so too near Confrère Tristan's for comfort, unless you have a strong stomach," a hint which, in my innocence, I failed to understand. "Give me a week," he added at parting, "but remember, I promise nothing except that I am at all times the friend of @@ -2333,7 +2310,7 @@ storeys were in the contraction of the roof. Each had but one outlook, and in the case of the lower it was again to the left, leaving a wide expanse of blank wall, and when I understood the tale it told, my gorge rose. Here was the sinister threat, the foul vice writ on an honest -seeming; François Villon in stone and mortar stared across the road. +seeming; François Villon in stone and mortar stared across the road. The whole wide expanse, and it was a very wide one, for the windows were small, was studded over by stout nails driven between the joints @@ -3738,7 +3715,7 @@ conscience. "It franks you, Monsieur," he said, pushing his scabbard in front of me when, Monsieur de Commines having entered, I would have followed, "but -our orders are strict. 'Understand, Lesellè,' His Majesty said to me +our orders are strict. 'Understand, Lesellè,' His Majesty said to me only to-day, 'you are to admit no one who does not carry the King's token.'" @@ -3750,8 +3727,8 @@ For a moment Monseigneur looked perplexed as he stood with the curtain drawn back and one foot already across the threshold. To argue with the wooden-witted northerner was impossible, and he dared not risk the sound of an altercation at the King's door. Louis might have scented -treason and called out to Lesellè to strike, not knowing nor caring who -was struck. Nor would Lesellè have been slow to obey. I think I have +treason and called out to Lesellè to strike, not knowing nor caring who +was struck. Nor would Lesellè have been slow to obey. I think I have said there was not much love between Monsieur de Commines and these mercenaries of the guard. But the embarrassment was only for an instant; Monseigneur was not the Prince de Talmont for nothing. @@ -3763,7 +3740,7 @@ your token, Monsieur de Helville, and lose no time; already His Majesty has been made to wait." "The King's signet, Monsieur," said I, catching my cue and shaking the -collet within an inch or two of Lesellè's surprised eyes. "Will you +collet within an inch or two of Lesellè's surprised eyes. "Will you withdraw your sword, or must I push it aside?" It seemed at first as if he would have protested against the trick @@ -4567,7 +4544,7 @@ Stretching out my hand again, I caught his, squeezing it hard. "I owe Monseigneur a good turn for that, and perhaps you and I may be able to pay him shortly." My idea was that the prompt success of de -Commines' _protégé_ would redound to de Commines' credit with the King, +Commines' _protégé_ would redound to de Commines' credit with the King, which was another reason against a too delicate squeamishness as to methods. "To-night we ride to Ouzay." @@ -4679,7 +4656,7 @@ At the time I answered nothing, but next morning as we sat at breakfast, our host serving us, I asked, as if for gossip's sake, if he knew of such a place as Morsigny? -"The château, I suppose you mean, Monsieur?" he replied, playing up to +"The château, I suppose you mean, Monsieur?" he replied, playing up to my lead while he busied himself doing nothing with apparent zeal. "It is about three leagues to the south, and so not far from the hills. But you will not find the Count at home." @@ -5076,7 +5053,7 @@ there to be no trust in me?" "No trust?" I echoed. "Why, all Navarre has trusted you, and to me it is a strange thing that a girl who is too humble to mount her horse at -the Château gate should yet be chosen to speak for Navarre in Paris." +the Château gate should yet be chosen to speak for Navarre in Paris." For a moment she looked aside in silence, then drily, as if I presumed upon her, she replied: "In my station I am what God made me, Monsieur." @@ -5179,7 +5156,7 @@ scope for play. Did I say that in this companionship of ours little Gaston made one of three? That is a mistake. Except when within the precincts of the -Château garden he made one of four. That I have hitherto forgotten +Château garden he made one of four. That I have hitherto forgotten Brother Paulus has but one reasonable excuse. Mademoiselle had pushed him from my thoughts. And is it a reasonable excuse? Brother Paulus would be the first to admit it--Brother Paulus of the grey withered @@ -5696,7 +5673,7 @@ our daily rides, partly that all Morsigny might see I was well served, but partly, and as I love to believe, chiefly that he might the sooner see his beloved Master Gaspard. On the day of which I write he was there as usual--Brother Paul was in Pan, and Mademoiselle would neither -mount nor dismount at the Château gate--but he was there with a +mount nor dismount at the Château gate--but he was there with a difference. His bow was deeper, his swagger had a larger pride, and instead of himself leading Roland to the stables, he handed him over to a groom's care with an unwonted air of authority. Then with a "This @@ -6040,7 +6017,7 @@ Suzanne's?" "No, it was my Monsieur Gaspard's," shouted little Gaston, rushing forward, and flinging his arms round the monk's knees. "Isn't Monsieur -Gaspard good to me, _mon père_?" +Gaspard good to me, _mon père_?" "But better still to me, _petit fils_. We please ourselves in pleasing the young, but few give a thought to please the old, and yet there are @@ -6049,7 +6026,7 @@ little lad's head he caught my hand in his and held it. "In a good day for us he came to Navarre; we must try and keep our Monsieur Gaspard, we two." -"He shall marry Suzanne, _mon père_, and when I am Count de Narbonne I +"He shall marry Suzanne, _mon père_, and when I am Count de Narbonne I shall give him an estate." "Not Suzanne, I think," answered Brother Paul, looking me smilingly in @@ -7139,7 +7116,7 @@ at the procrastination. But not for a week; the risk every way was too great; two days perhaps. "Two days?" she repeated, glancing at Paul. "What do you say to that, -_mon père_?" +_mon père_?" "Sufficient, I think," he answered thoughtfully. "Yes, more than sufficient, for we had last night." @@ -7796,7 +7773,7 @@ propose to pass the gates of Plessis?" "The King's signet?" -"Yes; when Lesellè refused you admission to the presence the afternoon +"Yes; when Lesellè refused you admission to the presence the afternoon you left Plessis, Monsieur de Commines passed you the King's ring, and in the haste that followed it was overlooked. You have it still?" @@ -8274,7 +8251,7 @@ the road through the city, and when presently Jan Meert's express went thundering northwards, none would say as he passed the walls, There is a woman before you! -At the Angoulême gate I met my first check. That it should be fast +At the Angoulême gate I met my first check. That it should be fast closed and guarded was to be expected, and that the guard should be an insolent, ribald crew was nothing strange. Those who served Louis earned their wages more by licence than as lawful pay. There were some @@ -8313,7 +8290,7 @@ Clery when his Majesty was in residence; but this is against all rule." "Have it so," said I, gathering up the reins. "I can return the way I came, and say to those who sent me that Monsieur the King's officer of -the Angoulême gate rates his captain higher than his King. May I +the Angoulême gate rates his captain higher than his King. May I suggest, Monsieur the King's officer, that it will be wise of you not to be found in Poictiers at daybreak to-morrow! But I give you one more chance. In the King's name and by the King's authority, I bid you @@ -8622,11 +8599,11 @@ was arrested in Poictiers last night." orders the news was at once brought to him. I was with him at the time; all night I have never left him. But when I would have spoken he shook his finger at me, and laid his hand upon the collar with the -Cross of Saint Lo. 'Dawn on Sunday,' he whispered to Lesellè. He is +Cross of Saint Lo. 'Dawn on Sunday,' he whispered to Lesellè. He is so weak, Mademoiselle, pitiably weak in the flesh, but the will and the spirit are as strong as ever. 'Dawn on Sunday. That day the saints draw nearer to us, and I would not kill the soul with the body. Hang -him at dawn, Lesellè.'" +him at dawn, Lesellè.'" "And this man is himself dying!" I cried. @@ -8790,7 +8767,7 @@ reputation? her good name? To his slippery, pliant policy all these are nothing. There, there, Monsieur Blaise, it is my turn to say, do not look so horrified! Monsieur de Commines is his master's mirror." -At the first door a red-haired youth whom Blaise called Dâvidd was +At the first door a red-haired youth whom Blaise called Dâvidd was waiting for us, and with him as surety we passed through guard after guard unchallenged. Up what stairs, along what corridors, through what anterooms we were led I do not know; nor could I tell whether the @@ -8804,7 +8781,7 @@ Before an open door, guarded as every other door had been through which we had come, Monsieur de Commines was waiting for us. "Come!" said he, brusquely, almost dragging me after him, while Blaise -and Dâvidd stood aside, "and remember, no matter what he may say, +and Dâvidd stood aside, "and remember, no matter what he may say, remember more than de Helville's life hangs on the turn of a word." "I am not afraid," I began. @@ -8902,7 +8879,7 @@ shaking finger at me. Monsieur--how civil you are, d'Argenton, with your Monsieurs and your ladys!--I have the rascal Hellewyl safe, and will hurt neither her nor hers. God forbid!" he went on unctuously, and turning his eyes towards -the side of the bed opposite to where Maître Coctier stood. There, a +the side of the bed opposite to where Maître Coctier stood. There, a guardian over the soul, as Coctier over the body--and which was the more grievously sick, God knows!--stood a frocked monk, white bearded, white moustached, and rigid as a statue, his hands folded humbly across @@ -9085,7 +9062,7 @@ threats were alike useless. So Saturday passed, and the sun went down on the last day of the week. Through all these desperate hours of failure Blaise and his friend -Dâvidd Lesellè went wheresoever I went, and though powerless to help, +Dâvidd Lesellè went wheresoever I went, and though powerless to help, their dumb sympathy was a comfort. Now, in this growing dusk, they sat with me in silence. I had ceased to weep. To me Gaspard was already dead and I had no more tears. Crouched forward, I watched the western @@ -9109,7 +9086,7 @@ I, and I, and I, we answered, while I added: "Oh, Monseigneur, is there hope?" -"God knows!" he said curtly. "Lesellè, dear lad, fetch a light. +"God knows!" he said curtly. "Lesellè, dear lad, fetch a light. Mademoiselle, can you ride boy-fashion?" "Yes, yes; Monsieur de Commines, what has happened?" @@ -9119,7 +9096,7 @@ saddle Bay Zadok and Mesrour; quick, boy, quick!" "But, Monseigneur----" -"One moment, Mademoiselle, here is Lesellè. Thanks, lad. Listen now. +"One moment, Mademoiselle, here is Lesellè. Thanks, lad. Listen now. You know the Poictiers road by Sainte Maure and Chatellerault?" "Yes, Monseigneur." @@ -9188,7 +9165,7 @@ must I do?" "Ah! Did I not say it was His finger! But who shall tell them in Poictiers, The King is dead?" -"You and Lesellè. Blaise is saddling the horses." +"You and Lesellè. Blaise is saddling the horses." "Eight hours, and thirty leagues to ride?" @@ -9196,13 +9173,13 @@ Poictiers, The King is dead?" "I rode for love's sake two days ago, and it cost me fourteen hours." -"You had but one horse, and lost your way. Young Lesellè knows the +"You had but one horse, and lost your way. Young Lesellè knows the road well, and yesterday I ordered relays to be ready at Sainte Maure and Chatellerault." -"Lesellè? Why not Blaise?" +"Lesellè? Why not Blaise?" -"Lesellè is one of the King's guard, and his uniform carries authority." +"Lesellè is one of the King's guard, and his uniform carries authority." "Oh, Monseigneur!" and I caught him by the hand, kissing it, "you think of everything." @@ -9222,7 +9199,7 @@ less time than the saddling of two horses. Tall and slim, my hair coifed out of sight, under the twinkle of the starlight I made as mannish a boy as Blaise himself. -Monseigneur was giving Dâvidd Lesellè his final instructions. +Monseigneur was giving Dâvidd Lesellè his final instructions. "There is a post to Paris--you can hear their horses stamping now in the west court, and here, in good time, comes Blaise. Join these as if @@ -9246,7 +9223,7 @@ spare them. Have you strength, Mademoiselle?" I saw him nod his head as we rode on in silence, a subdued clatter of life before us. -"At Poictiers," he went on slowly, but though he spoke to Lesellè his +"At Poictiers," he went on slowly, but though he spoke to Lesellè his eyes were fastened on mine, "I think I would ride straight for the market-place. It was the King's order that--that--all should be as public as possible, and the people warned to attend. Yes, the @@ -9255,13 +9232,13 @@ haste, ride with authority, assume the very powers of the Crown itself, and speak, if needs be, in Charles' name. Remember, that point once reached, delay is life to Monsieur de Helville. Mademoiselle, say what God and your heart bid you. Trust both, and have no fear. And now -here are the gates, and there the Paris post is waiting. Lesellè, I +here are the gates, and there the Paris post is waiting. Lesellè, I think your uncle has held it back for us. He has a kindly heart, and in three hours I have come to know him better than in the last as many years. At times it takes the shock of death to bring men near to one another. Mademoiselle, you are very safe with this lad, young as he is. He is staunch, has a Scot's prudence, a Scot's long head, and a -Scot's shrewdness, I can say no more. Lesellè lad, you ride a race for +Scot's shrewdness, I can say no more. Lesellè lad, you ride a race for life." "I understand, Monseigneur." @@ -9290,13 +9267,13 @@ A RACE FOR A LIFE We rode slowly at first, lagging behind the Paris post, and still slowly when we turned south. -"Not too fast till the horses are warmed to their work," said Lesellè, +"Not too fast till the horses are warmed to their work," said Lesellè, and I, with a fevered, grudging impatience reined Mesrour back to a trot. But once across the Cher the pace quickened, and on every flat and down every slope, we tore at a gallop. The road was good, smooth, broad and -hard, Louis and _corvée_ had seen to that. _Pa-lop, pa-lop, pa-lop_! +hard, Louis and _corvée_ had seen to that. _Pa-lop, pa-lop, pa-lop_! A race for a man's life, said Monseigneur. _Pa-lop, pa-lop, pa-lop_! It was all that, and more than that for me--it was a race for a woman's soul. How could there be a God at all if this monstrous iniquity of @@ -9310,7 +9287,7 @@ A swerve down the hill to the valley of the Indre broke into the beat. With a splash we plunged into the river, and walked our panting beasts up the further slope. -"Do we keep our time, Monsieur Lesellè?" +"Do we keep our time, Monsieur Lesellè?" "We more than keep it, Mademoiselle. Accidents apart, there is only one thing to fear." @@ -9319,7 +9296,7 @@ one thing to fear." "Wolves." -"I am not afraid, Monsieur Lesellè." +"I am not afraid, Monsieur Lesellè." "I know it, Mademoiselle, nor do I mean fear for ourselves," and with a thrust of the spur we rode on; by reaped cornfields, _a race--for the @@ -9328,7 +9305,7 @@ _pa-lop, pa-lop, pa-lop! a race--for a wom--an's soul_; under leafy arches, where the trees, grappling, met overhead and rasped their boughs in a rising wind. What a race it was, and how the blood drummed in the ears, how the courage rose as the night-wind blew cool in the -face! _Pa-lop, pa-lop, pa_----Crash! Bay Zadok was down, and Lesellè +face! _Pa-lop, pa-lop, pa_----Crash! Bay Zadok was down, and Lesellè lay in the ditch groaning. But before I could jump from the saddle he was on his feet again, stooping over the horse. A minute or two he fumbled at it in the dark, muttering to himself. @@ -9350,7 +9327,7 @@ God be thanked, it was not far, and at a trot we entered the straggle of dim grey huts that called itself Sainte Maure. Rounding a curve, a mellow glare flared from a doorstep. -"Monseigneur's posting-house," said Lesellè, and slipped to the ground. +"Monseigneur's posting-house," said Lesellè, and slipped to the ground. "Within there! Horses, horses! In the King's name!" They were alert and waiting. A head, cowled like a priest's, peered @@ -9359,7 +9336,7 @@ round the jamb. "Two minutes, Monsieur, two minutes; there is no more than to tighten the girths." -"Better dismount and stretch your legs, Mademoiselle," said Lesellè. +"Better dismount and stretch your legs, Mademoiselle," said Lesellè. "Two minutes means ten." "Are we on time?" @@ -9382,24 +9359,24 @@ The King is in haste! A true word. There were two Kings in haste, the King of Life and Love and the King of Sorrows. In my impatience I smote my palms together. -"Will they never bring the horses! Monsieur Lesellè! Monsieur -Lesellè----" +"Will they never bring the horses! Monsieur Lesellè! Monsieur +Lesellè----" "Here they come, Mademoiselle." Down a lane between the huts, a lane smelling of unutterable vileness, came the night-capped figure, a bridle on either arm. -"Do you give Monsieur a hand; ride on, I'll follow," said Lesellè, and +"Do you give Monsieur a hand; ride on, I'll follow," said Lesellè, and like a bolt I shot into the dark. This time I could brook no cautious warming into work. -Behind me Lesellè shouted for God's sake to wait; but I only cried +Behind me Lesellè shouted for God's sake to wait; but I only cried back, Follow, follow, follow! and spurred on. It was three leagues before he caught me up, and then only because the Creuse at Port-de-piles stopped me. Six, eight, ten minutes I waited, chafing. But the river was brawling, and I dared not face the water alone. -Lesellè's words were a warning. Only wolves or accident can stop us, +Lesellè's words were a warning. Only wolves or accident can stop us, and I feared the last more than the first. When at length he came through the gloom he was swaying in his saddle. @@ -9429,7 +9406,7 @@ the shallow water of the ford led up the road. But now galloping was no longer possible because of loose stones and greasy ruts. So sure as we pushed on beyond our cautious trot our beasts stumbled, nor did the track improve till we had passed Ingrande. -Twice I broke out on Lesellè, once in tears and once lashing him with +Twice I broke out on Lesellè, once in tears and once lashing him with my tongue as if the fault was his. But he either kept silence and rode on doggedly, or answered, always submissively, that there was no better path, and that the going was faster beyond Chatellerault. @@ -9437,21 +9414,21 @@ path, and that the going was faster beyond Chatellerault. But in Chatellerault there was again a check. The _Corne d'Abondance_ was asleep from garret to cellar, and ten -precious minutes were wasted before Lesellé, having beaten the door in +precious minutes were wasted before Lesellé, having beaten the door in vain, at last roused life by flinging a stone through an open window. -Then a man leaned out, cursing. But Lesellè cursed him back in two +Then a man leaned out, cursing. But Lesellè cursed him back in two languages, and cried out for the horses that were to be ready in the King's name. But there had either been a blunder or treachery: the horses were ordered for the night following, and again he cursed us for thieves. -"At your peril!" cried Lesellè. "If the King's business miscarries +"At your peril!" cried Lesellè. "If the King's business miscarries because of you, by God! you'll hang! You know the King's way." "To-morrow night," answered the fellow, "that was the order, and it is the King's way to be obeyed to the letter." -In the end it was Lesellè's archer's dress that saved us, and +In the end it was Lesellè's archer's dress that saved us, and thereafter there was no delay. But there had been a desperate waste of time, and as we galloped out of Chatellerault it seemed to me the east was grey. @@ -9467,7 +9444,7 @@ life. So dark was it we dared not touch a bridle, but with a loose rein plied whip and spur in our race for a man's life. -"Are we on time?" I cried to Lesellè, who led the way. +"Are we on time?" I cried to Lesellè, who led the way. "Please God!" he cried back across his shoulder, and stooping low to avoid the downward thrust of the branches, rode on. @@ -9484,7 +9461,7 @@ stumbling. "And the hour?" -All Lesellè's boyish ardour was gone. He rode like an old man, +All Lesellè's boyish ardour was gone. He rode like an old man, slouching in the saddle, his chin sunk on his breast. At my question I saw him raise his head and look at me, his face white against the overhung blackness of the night. @@ -9496,7 +9473,7 @@ overhung blackness of the night. "Gone four, I think." "Oh!" and with a savage lash I brought down the whip on my beast's -sweating flank. "Dawn in an hour! Lesellè, Lesellè, is there nothing +sweating flank. "Dawn in an hour! Lesellè, Lesellè, is there nothing will drive them on?" "They are only blown, Mademoiselle; give them time." @@ -9505,7 +9482,7 @@ will drive them on?" nothing--nothing to drive them on?" I have never ceased to count it a miracle, and a proof how, out of -evil, the Almighty can bring good. But two things can stop us, Lesellè +evil, the Almighty can bring good. But two things can stop us, Lesellè had said, wolves or accident. Of the two, I feared the last more than the first, and even as I spoke there came the howl of a wolf through the silence, a howl caught up and answered again and again from right @@ -9515,7 +9492,7 @@ fear till the shudder shook me in the saddle; then with a scream he bolted forward, and on we dashed as if the hounds of hell were loose coursing a soul. -"Lower, stoop lower!" cried Lesellè as the horses swerved, still +"Lower, stoop lower!" cried Lesellè as the horses swerved, still holding the road. "Keep a drag on the right rein, Mademoiselle!" Instinctively, but without comprehension, I obeyed, and the rasp of a @@ -9533,7 +9510,7 @@ hoarser almost every stride, there was no time for conscious fear. If I thought at all, it was that the pace could not last, that Poictiers was far away and the dawn near, that the sob was growing hoarser, hoarser, till the breath in the windpipes roared like the rasping of a -file. Then Lesellè shouted, "Halt, halt, halt!" and straining on the +file. Then Lesellè shouted, "Halt, halt, halt!" and straining on the bit, I pulled the staggering beast to a stand. Behind was the howling of the wolves, but down the road ahead came the @@ -9565,7 +9542,7 @@ it from his grasp. and shrill by turns. "The King is dead! Long live the King! I bear a pardon from King Charles!" -With that they closed in upon me, clamouring, and Lesellè rode up. +With that they closed in upon me, clamouring, and Lesellè rode up. "Tell them," I gasped, "tell them as we go, but in God's name, let us ride on. Monsieur de Helville!--a pardon from the King!" @@ -9577,7 +9554,7 @@ The name pricked them. time." Oh! that last dash through the still streets in the cool of the -morning! At my right was Lesellè, his face whiter than my own. His +morning! At my right was Lesellè, his face whiter than my own. His left hand was thrust through his belt, the palm flattened outwards. Bay Zadok had broken the arm, and all through the night he had ridden in his pain, making no moan. But I had no thought of pity for him, my @@ -9586,7 +9563,7 @@ the square and overflowed into every avenue of approach, choking them. When Louis said, Do this! it was the people's wisdom to obey; and, even under Louis, a Seigneur was not hung every day of the week! -Dropping the reins, Lesellè drew his sword and pushed on ahead. +Dropping the reins, Lesellè drew his sword and pushed on ahead. 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