"You ?" he cried, suddenly, as the picture came back.

He looked at the mask, then at her.

"Was it you who came into that room at the Corne d'Abondance in Rochelle, and when I addressed you, would not speak?
Oh! You, were implicated in a conspiracy, and you were on the way to Spain.
Saumaise! He knows who you are, and by the friendship he holds for me and I for him, he shall tell me!" He became all eagerness again.
"Vervain! I might have known.

Diane, give me some hope that all this mystery shall some day be brushed aside.

I am innocent of any evil; I have committed no crime.