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Several circumstances have shown that this Tournoire has made himself, or his agents, accessible to Huguenots, for these escapes of heretics across the border began at the same time when his rescues of Huguenot prisoners began.
Go on to-night as far as you think wise. It may be best, or necessary, to sleep in some field or wood, not too near the road, as I shall probably do toward the end of the night." "I shall certainly do that, Monsieur. It is a fine night." "When you get to La Tournoire, you are to tell my father that I am going on without an attendant, but by way of Vendome.
Indeed, the feat might even win you back the King's favor, which you say you have lost." "But suppose Montignac has other plans for the capture of this highly valued rebel?" said he. "If he had," said I, thinking of the arrangement as to the ambush, "they were made in the belief that La Tournoire was not to be taken by one man with a few hired knaves.
"La Tournoire!" came in a faint, horror-stricken voice from behind me. I turned and beheld mademoiselle, who had come out from the inn on hearing my call for Blaise. With her were Hugo and Jeannotte. Behind were the inn-keepers and the gypsies.
"Suppose you should love a woman," she continued, with a strange eagerness, "and there should come a time when you would have to choose between your love for her, and your friendship for this man, which would prevail?" "I would sacrifice La Tournoire for the woman I loved," I answered, with truth.
On learning of your arrival at Clochonne, an event of which La Tournoire is sure to be informed, your spy shall make the appointment of which I spoke, and shall send the second messenger to you at Clochonne with word of that appointment, so that your troops can be at hand." "The project is full of absurdities, Montignac," said the governor, shaking his head.
It is true that he did interest me, so ingenious did I think his recital. "I have no wish to prolong the life of one of us by this talk," he replied, "but a tale once begun should be finished. You know how you promised to deliver up La Tournoire to me. I grant that you kept the promise to the letter. During the rest of that night I lay quiet with my men.
I think Montignac's desire to have the lady take you was due to his having suggested the plan. He wanted both the credit of having devised your capture and the pleasure of mademoiselle's society. Yes, when you held out to me the possibility, I was willing to risk Montignac's resentment and take La Tournoire myself. Before that, I had confined myself to the task of following mademoiselle.
It was probably in wrath at not finding me that he had caused the destruction of my chateau, to make sure that it might not in any circumstances shelter me again. I well knew that, whatever my rights might be, my safety lay far from La Tournoire; and so did my means of retaliation. "If I had but a horse and a sword left!" I said.
And when I learned that you were La Tournoire himself, whom I had already half betrayed in sending Pierre to La Chatre with an account of your hiding-place; that you whom I already loved why should I not confess it? were the man whom I was to pretend to love; that you who already loved me were the man whom I was to betray by making him love me, oh, what a moment that was, a moment when all hope died and despair overwhelmed me!
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