"
"At any rate," said Marie, "he seems to have scared the blues in this
country; and if so, he must be a good friend to us."
"If we cannot do well without such friends, we shall never do well with
them. Believe me, whoever he may be, this man is no soldier."
De Lescure was, perhaps, right in the character which he attributed to
the Captain of La Petite Vendee; but the band of men which that
mysterious leader now commanded, held its ground in Brittany long after
the Vendean armies were put down in Poitou and Anjou. They then became
known by another name, and the Chouan bands for years carried on a
fearful war against the government in that part of the province which
is called the Morbihan.
About eight o'clock in the evening, Henri and Arthur Mondyon returned
to the house, after a long day's work, and were the first to bring new
tidings both of the blues and their new ally, the Mad Captain. A portion
of the republican army had advanced as far as Antrames, within a league
or two of Laval; and they had hardly taken up their quarters in the
town, before they were attacked, routed, and driven out of it by the men
of La Petite Vendee.
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