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ReaderThere are three places in the United States with the name Reader.
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eyes, indeed, who could infer from my appearance that I was other than the
head of a troop of his Eminence's guards.
I made my way swiftly back.html">back along the path that St. Auban and I had together
shrubbery where Michelot--faithful to the orders I had given him--awaited
Marquis, and as I suddenly loomed up before him now, he took me for the man
Gaston de Luynes. Of a certainty I had been pistolled by him had I not
whilst he went off to join Abdon and see.html">see to their fulfilment, I made my way
through the window into the room that St. Auban had left to follow me to
been; the back and breast pieces still lay upon the floor, and on the table
inside, a precaution which St. Auban had no doubt taken so that none might
ignorance of the whereabouts of St. Auban's bed-chamber, I must perforce
the part I was about to play.html">play, and the details of its playing. In this
slept, for I awakened with a start to find three tapers spent and the last
gone and the sunlight on my face. Someone knocked at the door, and that
as the signal to uplift the curtain and let my play-acting commence.
Hastily I rose and shot a glance at the mirror to see that my wig hung
reflection, for methought that from the glass 't was St. Auban who looked
things at my command.
"Holà there, within!" came Montrésor's voice. "Monsieur le. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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