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Mayenne's ward.
ucas sprang up.
"You have him? Where?"
"Yes, I have him," Mayenne answered with his tantalizing slowness.
"Alive?"
"I suppose so. He had his flogging but I told them I was not done with him. I thought we might have a use for him. He is in the oratory there."
"Diable! Listening?" cried Lucas, as if a quick doubt of Mayenne's good faith to him struck his mind.