Penny Dreadfuls, 1895 · page 163 of 394
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GOOD AND EVIL. 149 ‘You will leave at daybreak for the French camp. It is your business to enter it.”’ ‘I will enter it.”’ ‘‘You will learn the quarters of the artillery and go there at once. I1t will be easy to discover the lodging of a lieutenant named Grinedal; he is known to the soldiers as Belle-Rose. ”’ SL syill Ting. ims “You will hand him this letter. It is, as you can see, inclosed in an envelope and bearing no address; this letter has been written by a woman. You will say to Belle-Rose | that the person who handed you this letter is waiting for him two leagues from camp, behind Morlanwelz, near a wood which you possibly know.’”’ “‘T know it. It is a marvelous place for ambuscades.”’’ ‘That is what I thought yesterday as I rode by it. You will so arrange it that Lieutenant Grinedal shall follow you into this wood.’’ ‘*He will follow me.”’ ‘‘In that case you shall have twenty louis.’’ ‘They are earned.”’ ‘“Very well. One word. If you let yourself be suspected, you are as good as hung.’’ ‘‘My mother, who was something of a sorceress, always predicted that I should die in the water. You see that I have nothing to fear.”’ ‘‘Go, then. Here is the letter.”’ **Is that all?’’ ‘*All; the rest concerns me.”’ ‘The whole army is on its feet; when everybody looks, no one sees,’’ said Conrad, and he took his way at a deliberate pace toward the camp. Just as he crossed the palisades on the side of the frontier, His Majesty Louis XIV. entered the samp on the side of Charleroi. CHAPTER XXI. GOOD AND EVIL. It was toward the end of the month of May. Louis XIV., of the troops gathered together in Flanders. He wished to gee, and still more he wished to be seen, His entire accompanied by his staff, came to take supreme command (E(0) Mmicooo S) (E(0) =}