The hunt, according to the expression at the time, lasted all the rest of the day and during the night.

"A world of dead covers the field of battle," wrote Guise.

He had himself been wounded: he went in obstinate pursuit of a mounted foe whom he had twice touched with his sword, and who, in return, had fired two pistol-shots, of which one took effect in the leg, and the other carried away part of his cheek and his left ear.

Thence came his name of Henry the Scarred (_le Balafre_), which has clung to him in history.
[Illustration: Henry le Balafre----400] Scarcely four years had rolled away since the St.Bartholomew.

In vain had been the massacre of ten thousand Protestants, according to the lowest, and of one hundred thousand, according to the highest estimates, besides nearly all the renowned chiefs of the party.