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The priest's crew of desperadoes assuming Pavannes' suspicions to be correct would wait some time, no doubt, to give the master of the house a chance to return, but would certainly attack sooner or later out of greed, if from no other motive. Then the lady's fate would at the best be uncertain.
Heaven help her and me if it be so!" There are some statements for which it is impossible to be prepared; statements so strong and so startling that it is impossible to answer them except by action by a blow. And this of M. de Pavannes was one of these. If there had been any one present, I think I should have given him the lie and drawn upon him.
Bah!" and Pavannes raised his head proudly, "I fear him not! I fear him not a jot!" For a moment he forgot Kit, the loss of his friends, his own doom. He snapped his fingers in derision of his foe. But my heart sank miserably.
Unfortunately at this crisis their original design was recalled to their minds by the same voice behind, crying out, "Pavannes! Where is Pavannes?" "Ay!" shouted the butcher, grasping the idea, and at the same time spitting on his hands and taking a fresh grip of the axe, "Show us the heretic dog, and go! Let us at him."
The lad out of sight, we instantly resumed our purpose, and trying to shut our eyes and ears to the cruelty, and ribaldry, and uproar through which we had still to pass, we counted our turnings with a desperate exactness, intent only on one thing to reach Louis de Pavannes, to reach the house opposite to the Head of Erasmus, as quickly as we could. We presently entered a long, narrow street.
I remembered, in the dim fashion in which one remembers such things after the event, that I had heard Louis de Pavannes, when we first became acquainted with him, mention this cousin of the same name; the head of a younger branch.
It was not Louis de Pavannes at all. It was no old friend at all, It was the Vidame de Bezers! "Welcome, gentlemen!" he said, smiling at us and never had the cast been so apparent in his eyes. "Welcome to Paris, M. Anne!" There was a long silence. We stood glaring at him, and he smiled upon us as a cat smiles.
They were townsfolk, burgher guards or such like, and for some reason betrayed so evident a respect for me, that I soberly believe they would have turned on their temporary leader at my bidding. Pavannes took his sword, and placed it under his arm.
Alive or dead! or dead! You have thwarted me, M. de Pavannes, and taken from me the woman I loved. Six days ago I might have killed you. I had it in my power. I had but to leave you to the rabble, remember, and you would have been rotting at Montfaucon to-day, M. de Pavannes." "That is true," said Louis quietly. "Why so many words?" But the Vidame went on as if he had not heard.
"Your brothers will have by this time discovered the fact. Now, M. de Caylus, Pavannes must be brought here before morning, not only for his wife's sake though she will be wild with anxiety but also " "I know," I said, eagerly interrupting her, "for his own too! There is a danger threatening him." She turned swiftly, as if startled, and I turned, and we looked at the priest.
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