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No Surrender!

CHAPTER 9: Bad News
17/43

Then return to your bed again.

Tell your master, when he comes back again, I have left little Louis for him.' "I was getting up when I heard the horsemen, and guessed that it was the Blues and, without waiting a moment, dropped from my window and ran past the stable, and hid myself in the shrubbery behind it.
I had scarcely done so when I heard them come round the house.
"Then there was a great knocking at the door and, a minute later, a pistol shot was fired.

I heard afterwards that madame told Henri to open the door.

As he did so, the officer of the Blues shot him through the head.
"For ten minutes I heard nothing more.

Then someone came to the stable, took out the two horses, and then set fire to it.


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