[The flight of the Countess,] 132

[Michol welcomes the Countess,] 136

[Agnes makes a plea for the mother of Raymond and Louis,] 141

[The Robbers in the Old Woman's Cottage,] 160

[The Robbers in the hallway were forced into the Court-yard,] 178


The Story of Viteau.

CHAPTER I.

BY the side of a small stream, which ran through one of the most picturesque portions of the province of Burgundy, in France, there sat, on a beautiful day in early summer, two boys, who were brothers.

They had been bathing in the stream, and now, having dressed, they were talking together on the bank.