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 uncertainty, when the Count learned, with the utmost surprise, that the King of Navarre had put himself at the head of the troops he had assembled in the environs of Mante, marched against the revolted peasants, and entirely defeated them near Clermont, in Beauvaises; that 3000 of them had been left dead on the field of battle, and their leader had been given up to the severity of the laws by the King himself; that the remainder of those feroeious bands were dispersed, and flying in every quarter, still pursued by his troops. This eonduct of Charles, ineomprehensible to all the rest of the world, was not so to the Count: he ealled to mind all the eireumstanees which had passed in the subterraneous cavern, and saw it was owing to the influence of the unknown lady, or rather the result of his superstitious fear of her supernatural power.

In the evening he aceompanied the President De Monteal to the hotel of Dammartin, where, to his surprise, he beheld the Seur de Joinville seated beside the Countess de Dammartin and the lady of the mysterious eavern. The Countess took the unknown lady by the hand as soon as they entered the saloon, and introdueed her to the Count, as Madame Valentia de Montfort, who had saved her eountry and her prinee. It was her hand that dashed the empoisoned eup from the mouth of the Regent; it was her who, by her unele's instructions, had made such progress in those seienees whieh are known to so few; it was that knowledge whieh enabled her, hy means the most simple, to take advantage of the superstition of a monster, whose ignoranee made him suppose her possessed of supernatural powers; while, by her vigilance, she overturned all his plans of rebellion.

The Count de Nevers and Seur de Joinville heard this diseovery with wonder and pleasure-Madame Valentia de Montfort was married at an