The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

STORY OP A HUGUENOT'S SWORD. 101
With which words the spy-advocate commenced Chap. i.
running rapidly along a by-path, which led in the ^
direction taken by the Protestants. Meeting
He soon issued from the wood, and entered, „ ^^
through tlie back door, a small house situated upon no^ts^
the main road, though somewhat removed from it.
Hastening to the front window, which commanded
a view of the highway, he uttered an exclamation of
satisfaction.
Messire Jacques de la Fontaine and Barthelemi
Dupuy were passing, with locked arms, in earnest
conversation. Ere long they disappeared in the
half light of evening, still making gestures, and
conversing with animation. The spy-advocate took
out a small book, and with his pencil made a memorandum.
"Aha ! my good Messires !" he said, with a chuckle
of triumph, "I shall give information presently to
Messire the Procureur du Roi, and, I rather think,
shall be a witness on your trial! Ah, miscreants!
you reprinmnded me for abjuring, did you, and
said that I deserved to be degraded from the roll,
eh? W^ell, we shall see who gets the better of the
present affair, my good Messires Fontaine and
Dupuy! Yes, we shall see!"
With these words the advocate chuckled again,
and softly lowered the window from which he had
been gazing.
///.—The Trial of Jacques de la Fontaine.
Our narrative refers mainly
to after events, and Trial of
we can not enter into the details of what fol-
J^ques
lowed the assemblage of Huguenots in the wood of Fontaine.
Chatelars. Still we can not refrain from briefly
of Fontaine on his
noting the courageous bearing
trial.
He was arrested, with others, on the information
of the man Agoust, and, under convoy of a troup
of "archers," taken to the town of Saintes, where,
amidst furious cries of "Hang them ! hang them !"