18/40 Now, sir, does not that strike you as curious ?" "Well, I don't know, Pierre. A boy might very well chalk some doors, as he went along, and leave others untouched." "Yes, sir. But there is one very remarkable thing. I have gone on through several streets, and it has always been the same--so far as I can discover by questioning the concierges--at every house in which Huguenots are lodging, there is a white cross on the door. In the houses that are not so marked, there are no Huguenots." "That is strange, certainly, Pierre," Philip said, struck alike by the fact and by the earnestness with which Pierre expressed it. |