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pain's door, and had held on to him even
to Parthenay. The old bummer smiled
slightly when he found that they stopped
him in the open country, and that they had
sabres under their cloaks.
" Good luck to you, boss," said he to
our brave Ayvaz. "Oh, you don't run
any risk; I always brings luck to the gents
I carries; why, only last year I brought
out one who dropped his man. He gave
me twenty-five francs drink-money. It's
true, just as I tell you."
" You shall have fifty," said Ayvaz, " if
God grants me the vengeance I seek."
M. l'Ambert was an admirable fencer,
and too well known in the schools to have
ever had occasion to fight. So, in an actual
duel, he was as inexperienced as AyvazBey. Therefore, although he had beaten
his drill masters and marshals of several
cavalry regiments in fencing, he felt a
sort of dull trepidation which had no