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"Where have you been?"
"Where have I been, Cousin Aline? Oh... seeing the world."
"I have been patrolling this road since noon to-day waiting for you."
She spoke breathlessly, in haste to explain. "A troop of the
marechaussee from Rennes descended upon Gavrillac this morning in
quest of you. They turned the chateau and the village inside out,
and at last discovered that you were due to return with a horse
hired from the Breton arme. So they have taken up their quarters
at the inn to wait for you. I have been here all the afternoon on
the lookout to warn you against walking into that trap."
"My dear Aline! That I should have been the cause of so much
concern and trouble!"
"Never mind that. It is not important."
"On the contrary; it is the most important part of what you tell me.
It is the rest that is unimportant."
"Do you realize that they have come to arrest you?" she asked him,
with increasing impatience. "You are wanted for sedition, and upon
a warrant from M. de Lesdiguieres."
"Sedition?" quoth he, and his thoughts flew to that business at
Nantes.


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