But if you continue to be advised by M.de Guise, this I will say, Monsieur"-- and his voice fell low and stern.

"Burgundy slew Orleans, indeed; but he came in his turn to the Bridge of Montereau." "You take me for Monsieur ?" the unknown asked.

And it was plain that he smiled under his mask.
Biron's face altered.

"I take you," he answered sharply, "for him whose sign you sent me." "The wisest are sometimes astray," the other answered with a low laugh.
And he took off his mask.
The Grand Master started back, his eyes sparkling with anger.
"M.

de Tavannes ?" he cried, and for a moment he was silent in sheer astonishment.