" "And how long do you stop in Paris?" asked the guardsman.

Will you suffer it?" cried the guardsman in French.

Along the main avenue went the guardsmen and the gentlemen of the Elks Club.

I was now near enough to act, and with a sudden clutch I pulled the guardsman away, whirled him around, and stood in his place.

"Heave him up on his pins, and let us look at him," quoth a burly guardsman.

" At which they all laughed, and laughed, and chattered broad Irish together as they used to do for fun in old Kilanbaggan Castle, before Lucia was a weary wife, and Valencia a worldly fine lady, and Scoutbush a rackety guardsman, breaking half of the ten commandments every week, rather from ignorance than vice.

" The seigneur bowed with much condescension, and shook the guardsman by the hand.

to Paris!" shouted the guardsman frantically.

De Catinat, beckoning to Amos Green, hurried away with him to the stables, while De Brissac, with a few short sharp orders, disarmed the retainers, stationed his guardsmen all over the castle, and arranged for the removal of the lady, and for the custody of her husband.

He had seen Bontems hurry off and summon the guardsman and his friend.

'Twas indeed his Majesty's guardsman with his order, and Cedric listened with flushed face and beating heart, not to what he said, but for the sound of a silken rustle upon the great hall parquetry; and as he heard it, he raised his voice and said sternly to the courier, "And this means Tyburn-treea farewell forever to my friends" There was at these last words a suspicious trembling in his tones that was not wholly