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Chapter 3 Then came a voice that startled the two priests, for it seemed that a fourth man had entered the room, so changed was it from the musical voice of Pierre. "Father Victor, the roan is a strong horse. May I take him?" "Pierre!" and the priest reached out his bony hands. But the boy did not seem to notice or to understand. "It is a long journey, and I will need a strong horse. It must be eight hundred miles to that town." "Pierre, what claim has he upon you? What debt have you to repay?" And Pierre le Rouge answered: "He loved my mother." "You are going?" The boy asked in astonishment: "Would you not have me go, Father?" And Jean Paul Victor could not meet the sorrowful blue eyes. He bowed his head and answered: "My child, I would have you go. But promise with your