But if I find trouble in Angers when I come, I will hang some one high.

Don't scowl at me, man!"-- in truth, the look of hate in Father Pezelay's eyes was enough to provoke the exclamation.

"Some one, and it shall not be a bare patch on the crown will save his windpipe from squeezing!" A murmur of indignation broke from the preachers' attendants; one or two made a show of drawing their weapons.

But Count Hannibal paid no heed to them, and had already turned on his heel when Father Pezelay spurred his mule a pace or two forward.

Snatching a heavy brass cross from one of the acolytes, he raised it aloft, and in the voice which had often thrilled the heated congregation of St.Magloire, he called on Tavannes to pause.
"Stand, my lord!" he cried.