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endure the tortures of suspense, and then rushed out in search of a father whom he was never more to behold. Hasting to the quarters of Lord Teligny, his friend and benefactor, he found him mortally wounded, and faintly repeating the names of his wife and children. He then flew to the Hotel de St. Pierre, where Admiral Coligny lodged. But his headless trunk was precipitated from the window, and dragged onward by blood-smeared men, with faces scarcely human. By the exulting vengeance on the brow of the Duke of Guise, who directed them, it might have been known that this victim was the man, whom the Catholics most dreaded. While our ancestor was hurrying bewildered from place to