He hinted that--that ..." "That I was her lover too ?" "Yes," murmured Anne Mie.
She hardly liked to look at him; the strong face had become hard and set in its misery.
"And she allowed them to say all this ?" he asked at last.
"Yes.

And she followed them without a murmur, as Merlin said she would have to answer before the Committee of Public Safety, for having fooled the representatives of the people." "She'll answer for it with her life," murmured Deroulede.

"And with mine!" he added half audibly.
Anne Mie did not hear him; her pathetic little soul was filled with a great, an overwhelming pity of Juliette and for Paul.
"Before they took her away," she said, placing her thin, delicate-looking hands on his arm.

"I ran to her, and bade her farewell.
The soldiers pushed me roughly aside; but I contrived to kiss her--and then she whispered a few words to me." "Yes?
What were they ?" "'It was an oath,' she said.

'I swore it to my father and to my dead brother.