And an arquebuse--Croisette's match burned splendidly--well loaded with slugs is an ugly weapon at five paces, and makes nasty wounds, besides scattering its charge famously.

This, a good many of them and the leaders in particular, seemed to recognise.

We might certainly take two or three lives: and life is valuable to its owner when plunder is afoot.

Besides most of them had common sense enough to remember that there were scores of Huguenots--genuine heretics--to be robbed for the killing, so why go out of the way, they reasoned, to cut a Catholic throat, and perhaps get into trouble.

Why risk Montfaucon for a whim?
and offend a man of influence like the Vicomte de Caylus, for nothing! Unfortunately at this crisis their original design was recalled to their minds by the same voice behind, crying out, "Pavannes! Where is Pavannes ?" "Ay!" shouted the butcher, grasping the idea, and at the same time spitting on his hands and taking a fresh grip of the axe, "Show us the heretic dog, and go! Let us at him." "M.