It was I, comrade.

You saved my life," he added significantly.

"The girl threw, but missed," said Parpon.

"She does not know but that she struck him." "She must be told." "I will tell her that you killed him.

Leave it to me--all to me, my grand seigneur." A half-hour afterwards the avocat, the Cure, and the Little Chemist, had heard the story as the dwarf told it, and Valmond returned to the Louis Quinze a hero.