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I know not how much of the truth he suspected, but for ahe contemplated a leap at my throat Then his eyes fell, and he drew back with a short laugh

"Le Diable! 'tis easy for some people to discover excuses at such a tiht Ibeen early awake I aed his robes for the night

"Before you sleep," I ventured, "it would please my curiosity to knohere this pure and peerless Queen of yours makes her abode"

"Ah! would you pay her a visit?" he asked suspiciously

"Far from it; rather that I may avoid her Yet we are not in specially pleasant surroundings, and such inforht not come amiss"

He sulked a e hut upon the second mound"

"You spoke as if Madame de Noyan were beneath the same roof, yet you saw her not Does the hut differ fro divided into rooh it from roof to floor Naladi holds court in the south roos of beauty"

"Then Madame occupies the northern portion?"

"So I understood," with a sleepy yawn "I asked little in detail; 'twas enough for me to be assured she ell"