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Auban and Montmedy, whilst I drew back, suddenly realising my own spent condition, to which the heat of the combat had hitherto rendered me insensible. I mastered myself as best I might, and, dissembling my hard breathing, I wiped my blade with a kerchief, an act which looked so calm and callous that it drew from the crowd for a crowd it had become by then an angry growl.
Let's live in the present, as we were, at least for to-day. But to-night " He turned swiftly, and left her, so that she found left unsaid certain questions as well as certain accusations she had stored for this first meeting. That night, Josephine St. Auban did not sleep. For hours she tossed about, listening. Infrequently, sounds came to her ears.
More was said between them, but my attention was suddenly drawn elsewhere. Michelot burst into the room, disaster written on his face. "Monsieur," he cried, in great alarm, "the Marquis de St. Auban is riding down the street with the Vicomte de Vilmorin and another gentleman."
"I am sure the fatigue of the journey across the mountains must have left you quite weary," he ventured, addressing her. "There's only the choice of sleeping, or of hanging over the deck rail and looking at these hills." He waved a hand toward a window, whence might be seen the near-by shores. Josephine St. Auban showed no sign of perturbation as she answered: "Not so weary as busy.
He had expected to find a woman claiming his aid, or rather his acquaintance under excuse of a plea for aid. He found both these apparently in league against him, and one of these apparently after all not what he had thought! His face flushed. Meantime Josephine St. Auban arose, bowed, and left them.
"Come, take up your sword." "To what purpose?" "Do you question me? Take up your sword, man, and do my bidding; thus shall you have a slender chance of life. Refuse and I pistol you without compunction. So now put on that wig and mask." When he obeyed me in this "Now listen, St. Auban," I said.
Auban muttered an oath, Vilmorin stifled a cry, whilst he who had so loudly called to know where I hid myself a frail little fellow, in the uniform of the gardes du corps now stood silent and abashed. The two women, who had withdrawn into a dark and retired corner of the apartment, stood gazing with interest upon this pretty scene. "Well, gentlemen?"
Two minutes later I was in the saddle riding with Michelot in the wake of the carriage. As I have already sought to indicate in these pages, Michelot was as much my friend as my servant. It was therefore no more than natural that I should communicate to him my fears touching what might come of the machinations of St. Auban, Vilmorin, and even, perchance, of that little firebrand, Malpertuis.
Consigning Mademoiselle to the care of Michelot, who stood panting and bleeding from a wound in his shoulder, I turned back to my dead horse, and plucking the remaining pistol from the holster I ran down to the very edge of the water. The boat was not ten yards from shore, and my action had been unheeded by St. Auban, who was standing in the stern.
From the brief interview that I had with him I discovered that whilst he but vaguely suspected me to be St. Auban and when I say "he suspected me" I mean he suspected him whose place I had taken he was, nevertheless, aware of the profit which his captor, whoever he might be, derived from this business. It soon grew clear to me from what he said that St.
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