And yet he had set his life on the cast; what more could he have done?
"You will not harm him ?" he muttered.
"He shall go safe," Count Hannibal replied gravely.
"And--" he fought a moment with his pride, then blurted out the words, "you will not tell her--that it was through me--you found him ?" "I will not," Tavannes answered in the same tone.

He stooped and picked up the other's robe and cowl, which had fallen from a chair--so that as he spoke his eyes were averted.

"She shall never know through me," he said.
And Tignonville, his face hidden in his hands, told him..