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The Grey Cloak

CHAPTER XI
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We have shared the same tents on the battlefield; I have borrowed your clothes and your money, and you have borrowed my sword, for that is all I have.
Listen to me.

There will be exploits over there, and the echo of them will wander back here to France.

Fame awaits us.

Are we not as brave and inventive as De Champlain, De Montmagny, De Lisle, and a host of others who have made money and name?
Come; take my hand.

Together, Paul, and what may not fortune hold for us!" There was something irresistible in his pleading; and the Chevalier felt the need of some one on whom to spend his brimming heart of love.
His face showed that he was weighing the matter and viewing it from all points.


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