Part 164 (1/2)

It was ain silence, each plunged in his own thoughts, sad as despair, gloomy as chastiseht; vast clouds covered the heavens, concealing the stars; the ht

Occasionally, by the light of a flash of lightning which glea the horizon, the road stretched itself before them, white and solitary; the flash extinct, all remained in darkness

Every nan, constantly in advance of the little troop, and to beg hiain departed froo forward; and he went

They passed in silence through the little village of Festubert, where the wounded servant was, and then skirted the wood of Richebourg At Herlier, Planchet, who led the column, turned to the left

Several times Lord de Winter, Porthos, or Aramis, tried to talk with the ation which they put to him he boithout response The travelers then comprehended that there must be some reason why the unknown preserved such a silence, and ceased to address themselves to him

The storm increased, the flashes succeeded one another rowl, and the wind, the precursor of a hurricane, whistled in the plumes and the hair of the horsemen

The cavalcade trotted on more sharply

A little before they came to Fromelles the storues to travel, and they did it anan took off his hat, and could not be persuaded tothe water trickle over his burning brow and over his body, agitated by feverish shudders

Thethe Port, a man sheltered beneath a tree detached himself from the trunk hich he had been confounded in the darkness, and advanced into the er on his lips

Athos recognized Grimaud

”What's the manner?” cried Athos ”Has she left Arn in the affirnan!” said Athos ”I have charged ate Grimaud”

”Where is she?” asked Athos

Grimaud extended his hands in the direction of the Lys ”Far from here?”

asked Athos

Grier bent

”Alone?” asked Athos

Grin yes

”Gentleue of us, in the direction of the river”

”That's well,” said d'Artagnan ”Lead us, Grimaud”

Griuide to the cavalcade

At the end of five hundred paces, more or less, they came to a rivulet, which they forded