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I am at any rate too well known to be suspected. I
don't know what came over me today, but had the Republic depended on it,
I could not have done it," and he flung himself down on one of Agatha's
sofas, and slept not the less soundly for having began his career of
extermination in so vacillating a manner.

CHAPTER X
THE RESCUE
The little Chevalier had no intention of saving himself, and deserting
his friends, when, on Santerre's approach, he ran off, leaving Agatha
and the Marquis at the garden door of the chateau. He knew that Chapeau
was at the smith's forge, with his own pony. He had himself sent him
there; and as soon as he perceived, on running round the side of the
house, that the whole front was occupied by the blues, his first idea
was to go after his pony, and ride as fast as the animal could carry him
to Echanbroignes, and bring the royalists from thence to the rescue of
their friends at Durbelliere. With this object he clambered over the
garden-wall, and well knowing every foot of the ground, reached the
forge in a few minutes.


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