“I fear so; there is a traveler in there.”

“Then we must fly at once, for proscribed, menaced——”

“Where will you go?”

“We have two or three addresses given to us by an innkeeper we know, M. la Hurière.”

“Do you know La Hurière?”

“Yes, we made his acquaintance on the night of St. Bartholomew.”

“Well, I see you and your relation are holy people; I also know La Hurière. Then you say this monk——”

“Had the imprudence to preach against the Huguenots, and with so much success that the king wanted to put him in prison.”

“And then?”

“Ma foi, I carried him off.”