The cure was quite satisfied." "Heaven forgive us!" groaned Newman.

"I would rather the doctor were satisfied! And can he see me--shall he know me ?" "When I left him, half an hour ago, he had fallen asleep after a feverish, wakeful night.

But we shall see." And Newman's companion proceeded to lead the way out of the station to the village, explaining as he went that the little party was lodged in the humblest of Swiss inns, where, however, they had succeeded in making M.de Bellegarde much more comfortable than could at first have been expected.

"We are old companions in arms," said Valentin's second; "it is not the first time that one of us has helped the other to lie easily.

It is a very nasty wound, and the nastiest thing about it is that Bellegarde's adversary was not shot.