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LORDS OF LIFE AND DEATH.
One friend did La Boulaye count in the village of Bellecour.

This was old Duhamel, the schoolmaster, an eccentric pedant and a fellow-worshipper of the immortal Jean Jacques.

It was to him that La Boulaye now repaired intent upon seeking counsel touching a future that wore that morning a singularly gloomy outlook.
He found Duhamel's door open, and he stepped across the threshold into the chief room of the house.

But there he paused, and hesitated.