Do you know what has happened to the duke ?" "Yes, I know.

He has been sentenced to death.

To-morrow he will be executed.

What have you discovered ?" "A fox on the trail of a lion!" harshly replied the young man.

"He who aroused so many hopes is, after all, nothing more than an impostor--Leon Maria Hervagault, the son of a tailor at St.Leu.The true dauphin, the son of Louis XVI., really died a natural death, after he had served a three years' apprenticeship as shoemaker under Master Simho; and in order that a later generation might not be able to secure his ashes, he was buried in quick-lime in the Chapel of St.Margarethe." "They were not so scrupulous concerning monsieur,"[1] observed the old man, restlessly pacing the floor.