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Updated: June 15, 2025
Five minutes later, Frojac and I were speeding our horses over the forest path towards Clochonne.
"It occurs to me, mademoiselle," said I, "that you will be glad to have some guidance across the border. Let me recommend to you one, whose services I think I can assure you, and whom we may fall in with in the vicinity of Clochonne, the Sieur de la Tournoire." Mademoiselle turned white, and stared at me with a look of terror on her face.
So I gave my men permission to forage, putting but one condition upon them, that of losing their lives rather than allow our hiding-place to be disclosed. Thus, by virtue of many nightly visits to farms in the vicinity of Clochonne and Narjec, we contrived to avoid the pangs of an empty stomach.
One afternoon, as we stood on a little spur that rose from the declivity below the chateau, and whence through a small opening between trees could be seen the river, the smiling plain, and afar the high-perched chateau of Clochonne, I asked her: "Why is it that when I speak of what most occupies my heart you become silent or sorrowful, or go suddenly from me?"
Coming by the road that I had used, Blaise would not meet the governor's men on their way to Maury. But the road by the river was much the shorter. The governor's men, on discovering Maury deserted, might return immediately to Clochonne. They might reach this spot before Blaise's men did, or about the same time. Then there would be fighting.
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