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THE DISCOVERY OF A COMPLETELY UNKNOWN MANUSCRIPT AT A PERIOD IN WHICH HISTORICAL SCIENCE IS CARRIED TO SUCH A HIGH DEGREE APPEARED ALMOST MIRACULOUS. FELTON NAMED LORD DE WINTER; THE UNKNOWN WOULD NOT NAME ANYBODY, AND PRETENDED THAT IT WAS TO THE DUKE ALONE HE WOULD MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN. THE HOST, WHO WAS NOT ENDOWED WITH GREAT PERSPICACITY, DID NOT OBSERVE THE EXPRESSION WHICH HIS WORDS HAD GIVEN TO THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE STRANGER. "HE SHALL DIE, THEN, SINCE YOU CONDEMN HIM!" SAID D’ARTAGNAN, IN SO FIRM A TONE THAT IT APPEARED TO MILADY AN UNDOUBTED PROOF OF DEVOTION.