We have no time to lose." "But what what does it mean!" Madame de Pavannes said, as though she hesitated even now.

"Is there danger still ?" "Danger!" the priest exclaimed, his form seeming to swell, and the exaltation I had before read in his voice and manner again asserting itself.

"I put myself at your service, Madame, and danger disappears! I am as God to-night with powers of life and death! You do not understand me?
Presently you shall.

But you are ready.

We will go then.