Perdition take the fool, it is safe!" "Have I been seeking safety since you knew me ?" I asked.
"Verily no, and therefore I wonder at you the more; but you have been long sick, and men's minds are changeful.

Consider the thing, nom Dieu! If there be no two lights shown from the mill, we step back silently, and all is as it was; the English have thought worse of their night onfall, or the Carmelite's message was ruse de guerre.

But if we see the two lights, then the hundred English are attempting the taking of the mill; the St.Denis Gate is open for their return, and we are looked for by our Armagnacs within Paris.

We risk but a short tussle with some drowsy pock- puddings, and then the town is ours.

The Gate is as strong to hold against an enemy from within as from without.