wered the Incorruptible. "You may leave the
Conciergerie when you please, thought I shall ask you to remain at your
lodging in the Rue Nationale until this Ombreval is actually taken. Once
he has been brought to Paris, I shall send you your papers that you may
leave France, for, much though I shall regret your absence, I think that
it will be wiser for you to make your fortune elsewhere after what has
passed."

La Boulaye took a step in Suzanne's direction.

"You have done this?" he cried, in a quivering voice. "You have betrayed
the man to whom you were betrothed?"

"Do not use that word, Monsieur," she cried, with a shudder. "My action
cannot be ranked among betrayals. He would have let you go to the
guillotine in his stead. He had not the virtue to come forward, for all
that he knew that you must die if he did not. On the contrary, such a
condition of things afforded him amusement, matter to scorn and insult
you with. He would have complacently allowed a dozen men to have gone to
the guillotine that his own worthless life might have been spared.

"But he was your betrothed!" La Boulaye protested.

"True!" she made answer; "but I had to choose between the man it had
been arranged I should marry and the man I loved." A flush crimsoned her
cheek, and her voice sank almost to a whisper. "And to save the man I
love I have delivered up Ombreval."

"Suzanne"

The name burst from his lips in a shout of wonder and of joy ineffable.
In a stride he seemed to cover the distance between them, and he caught
her to him as the door slammed on the discreetly departing Robespierre.

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