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Show 70 Til£ LILY AND THE TOTEM. ccncc of all evil intention, did not avail. His judges were not hi9 friends; he was found guilty and remanded to llis dungeon, to await the farther caprices and the judgment of hill enemy. VI. THE LEGEND OF GUERNACHE.-CnAP. IV. THE DUNGEON AND THE SCOURGE. THE absence of Gucrnache from his usual place of meeting with Mooaletta, brought the most impu.tieot apprehension to tho heart of the devoted woman. As the time wore away-a.s night after night passed without his coming, she found the suspenso unendurable, and gradually drew nigh to tho fortress of tho Huguenots. More than once bad he cautioned her against incurring a peril equally great to them both. But her heart was already too full of fears to be restrained by such dangers as he alone could have foreseen; and she now lurked about the fort a~ nightfnll, and continued to hover around long after dawn, keep~ ing watch upon its walls and portal. So close and careful, bow~ ever, was this ''ntcb, that ahe herself remained undetected. One dt~y, however, to her great satisfaction, one or the inmates came forth whom she knew to be a friend and nasoeiate of Guernaehe. Thi~:. was one Lachanc, affectionately called La Chtre• • The names are thu. written by Laudonniere in Hakluyt. But in Charle\'OiJ: there is only one given to this personage, and that ia " La· eha\1." |