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The Refugees

CHAPTER XVIII
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"He is most certainly there.

I trust that you have no pain ?" The American waved in the air with his knotted fists.

"You think that I am crazed," he cried, "and, by the eternal, you are enough to make me so! When I say that I sent the bishop, I mean that I saw to the job.
You remember when I stepped back to your friend the major ?" It was the soldier's turn to grow excited now.

"Well ?" he cried, gripping the other's arm.
"Well, when we send a scout into the woods, if the matter is worth it, we send a second one at another hour, and so one or other comes back with his hair on.

That's the Iroquois fashion, and a good fashion too." "My God! I believe that you have saved me!" "You needn't grip on to my arm like a fish-eagle on a trout! I went back to the major, then, and I asked him when he was in Paris to pass by the archbishop's door." "Well?
Well ?" "I showed him this lump of chalk.


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