I have saved your life, and that of your wife who will be.

I bring to you this letter from Teresa de Fontenai." Tallien, with a trembling hand, opened the letter, and read,-- "Am I forever to implore you in vain?
Again and again I say, 'Lose not an hour if you value my life and your own.' My trial and death are fixed the third day from this,--the 10th Thermidor.

Strike while it is yet time,--strike the monster!--you have two days yet.

If you fail,--if you procrastinate,--see me for the last time as I pass your windows to the guillotine!" "Her trial will give proof against you," said the stranger.

"Her death is the herald of your own.