The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

130 BARTHOLOMEW DUPUY IN HISTORY.
Chap. I . "For God's sake, Seigneur!" cried the faithful
-Pjjg servant, "don't think of me. There they are ! They
Flight are coming on like a whirlwind, shouting fit to
to the burst them ! In another moment you are lost !"
Dupuy replied by shaking his clenched hand
toward the dragoons, muttering an exclamation of
hatred,
horse.
and seizing the bridle of the Countess's
In another instant they were out of the little
grassy court-yard, and had disappeared like shad-
of the
owy phantoms beneath the drooping boughs
forest.
As they did so, Jarnilloc, at the head of his
troopers, and accompanied by the traitor Agoust,
burst into the chateau uttering howls of rage and
blood-thirsty triumph at his anticipated vengeance.
With a yell of furious joy he broke down the
door, and at the head of his dragoons, rushed with
curses and cries into the great dining-room, whose
walls seemed to shudder at the terrific shouts.
Above, the calm, serene, old nobleman on canvas
looked down with a tranquil gaze upon the scene.
"Gone!" cried Agoust. "He has fled, and you
are too late. Captain !"
"Rascal!" cried Jarnilloc, seizing the advocate
by the throat, "this is thy fault ! I will squeeze thy
cursed eyeballs out !"
And he grasped the advocate's throat until he
was black in the face. Agoust fell upon his knees
and begged for mercy. He could tell by what road
they fled, he pleaded, and they might be overtaken ;
they were only a man and woman.
"Good!' cried the furious dragoon, whose rage
and hatred gave him supernatural strength despite
his wound. "Six men in the saddle, and you, too,
rascally advocate ! The rest stay and cut to pieces
everything in this cursed house!"
In another moment Jarnilloc was dashing at full
speed on the road indicated by the despairing advocate,
who thus saw his property ruined, but dared
say nothing.