"Do you, then, know this Chevalier de Maison-Rouge?"
"Perfectly."
"Have you seen the description of him?"
"By thunder! Santerre gave it to me. Five feet two or three inches, fair hair, blue eyes, straight nose, etc.; besides, I have seen him."
"When?"
"This very day."
"You have seen him?"
"And so have you."
Maurice started.
"The short, fair young man who rescued us this morning,—he who commanded the troop of Muscadins, and struck so hard."