I answered huskily:

"Would Monsieur have me turn Judas?"

"Judas betrayed his _master_."

It was my last stand. My last redoubt had fallen. I raised my head to

tell him all.

Maybe it was the tears in my eyes, but as I lifted them to M. le Duc, I

saw--not him, but Yeux-gris--Yeux-gris looking at me with warm good

will, as he had looked when he was saving me from Gervais. I saw him, I

say, plain before my eyes. The next instant there was nothing but

Monsieur's face of rising impatience.

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