"I dare not," he continued sorrowfully.

"But in God's name I offer you a higher and a nobler errand." "We need none," Tignonville muttered impatiently.
"Yet many others need you," La Tribe answered in a tone of rebuke.

"You are not aware that the man you follow bears a packet from the King for the hands of the magistrates of Angers ?" "Ha! Does he ?" "Bidding them do at Angers as his Majesty has done in Paris ?" The men broke into cries of execration.

"But he shall not see Angers!" they swore.

"The blood that he has shed shall choke him by the way! And as he would do to others it shall be done to him." La Tribe shuddered as he listened, as he looked.