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As the houses of Chastel were swept away the enemy on the other side was left exposed, and the Germans, despite their courage and energy, were cut down fast. Aid for the French was coming continually. New regiments rushed up the snowy slopes. John heard a shout behind him, and Captain Colton and the Strangers coming from afar rushed into the battle.
But Captain Colton pressed his electric torch and the three in the earthy alcove saw one another well. "Will you go to Chastel yourself?" asked John of Weber. "Not at present. I bear a message which takes me in the Forest of Argonne, but I shall return along this line in a day or two, and it may be that I can reach the village.
He heard more shots fired, but evidently random triggers only had been pulled, as no bullet struck near him. The fall of snow ceased almost entirely, and the moon grew brighter and brighter. Chastel was a vast white ruin, tinted with silver, and as such it had an uncanny beauty of its own. But John, thankful that the snow was so deep, lay buried in it, where it had drifted against the wall.
Not often in Christian history has a monarch been solemnly and officially accused by a brother sovereign of suborning assassins against his life. Bribery, stratagem, and murder, were, however, so entirely the commonplace machinery of Philip's administration as to make an allusion to the late attempt of Chastel appear quite natural in Henry's declaration of war.
I learned French in my infancy and I speak it not like an American or an Englishman but like a Frenchman." "That helps a lot. What's to be your new name?" It was not a matter to which John had given any thought, but as he glanced at the ruined town the question solved itself. "Chastel, Castel," he said.
Madame, her mother, would have gone too, but she was ill, so she remained in the house, while the beautiful Mademoiselle Julie departed with the great peasant, Antoine Picard, and his daughter Suzanne." "Do you know how they went?" "By rail, I think, as far as they could go, and thence they were to travel by motor to the tiny village of Chastel, their destination.
At this instant Tannegui de Chastel, making the signal, leaped the barrier with some others, and giving him the first blow, he was almost immediately despatched. Though the Dauphin was in appearance only a passive spectator of this assassination, there can be no doubt that he was privy to its commission." From Fossard to Sens, 21 miles: the country uninteresting as far as Pont-sur-Yonne.
"It is here that Philip wished me to come, and if I am not here when he arrives he will not know where to find me. And there is no danger. You know that, Mr. Scott. If Antoine really saw German lances as he claims, it is no proof that German horsemen will come to Chastel, running into danger. What have they to gain by raiding a ruined town?" "There is much reason in what you say.
But they were clear of aeroplanes. The heavy snow of the night before had driven in the hosts of the air, and they had not reappeared. Then John resolved to go to Chastel himself. He did not know how he would go or what he would do when he got there, but the impulse was strong and it remained with him.
"I confess, Miss Julie, I don't understand it," replied John. "The fighting here seems to have occurred within the last two or three days. It is behind our lines and I did not hear of it, but so much has happens of which we do not hear, and there has been so much shifting of the lines in recent days that a battle could easily have occurred at Chastel without my knowledge.
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