I show it to you, and if you are questioned about this day's work you can reply that you took your orders from him who carried Guise's jewel.

Go your ways back to Paris if you would avoid trouble." Two of the men seemed to waver, but the maddened cry of the priest detained them.

"They seek to murder me," he screamed.

"Would you desert God's Church and burn in torment for ever ?" He hurled himself on Gaspard, who caught his wrist so that the knife tinkled on the high road while the man overbalanced himself and fell.

The next second the mellay had begun.
It did not last long.