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Rouse my women, alarm the house! And when you have his people at your throats five as they will be to one of you thank your own mad folly!" Tuez-les-Moines' eyes glittered. "You will not tell us?" he cried. "No!" "Then " But as the fanatic sprang on her, La Tribe flung his arms round him and dragged him back. "It would be madness," he cried. "Are you mad, fool?
"Oh, go," she wailed. "Go! Will you never go? If you love me, if you ever loved me, I implore you to go." He had betrayed little of a lover's feeling. But he could not resist that appeal, and he turned silently. Seizing Tuez-les-Moines by the other arm, he drew him by force to the trap. "Quiet, fool," he muttered savagely when the man would have resisted, "and go down!
"And we may as well eat, ourselves. Lead the horses into the wood. And do you, Perrot, call Tuez-les-Moines, who is forward. Two hours' riding should bring us to La Fleche. We need not leave here, therefore, until the sun is low. To dinner! To dinner!"
And his bloodshot eyes it was Tuez-les-Moines questioned the doors, while his hand, trembling and shaking on the haft of his knife, bespoke his eagerness. "Where is he? Where is he, woman? Quick, or " "I shall not tell you," she answered. "You lie," he cried, grinning like a dog. "You will tell us! Or we will kill you too! Where is he? Where is he?"
"See what has come of your delay already!" "The water is rising," the man muttered earnestly. "In God's name come, whether you have done it or not, or we cannot pass out again. It is within a foot of the crown of the culvert now, and it is rising." "Curse on the water!" Tuez-les-Moines answered in a frenzied whisper. "And on this Jezebel. Let us kill her and him! What matter afterwards?"
Letting his legs drop through the trap, he followed the bearer of the tidings out of sight. Another made up his mind to go, and went. Then only Tignonville, holding the lanthorn, and La Tribe, who feared to release Tuez-les-Moines, remained with the fanatic.
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