CHAPTER VI.
THE BROTHERS.
MM.

De Joyeuse had, as we have seen, left this scene, and were walking side by side in the streets generally so populous but now deserted, for every one was in the Place de Greve.

Henri seemed preoccupied and sad, and Anne was unquiet on account of his brother.

He was the first to speak.
"Well, Henri," said he, "where are you taking me ?" "I take you nowhere, brother; I was only walking before you.

Do you wish to go anywhere ?" "Do you ?" "Oh! I do not care where I go." "Yet you go somewhere every evening, for you always go out at the same hour and return late at night." "Are you questioning me, brother ?" said Henri, with gentleness.
"Certainly not; let each keep his own secrets if he wishes to do so." "If you wish it, brother, I will have no secrets from you." "Will you not, Henri ?" "No; are you not my elder brother and friend ?" "Oh! I thought you had secrets from me, who am only a poor layman.