From time to time he glanced under his lids at Lucien, and his furtive looks denoted a disquietude approaching to fear. Perhaps it was the great resemblance between the brothers that struck him, and he thought he saw in Lucien the avenging shade of Louis. While they were loading the pistols I saw him draw his hand from the breast of his coat. The fingers were enveloped in a handkerchief as if to prevent their twitching. Lucien waited calmly, like a man who was sure of his vengeance. Without being told, Lucien walked to the place his brother had occupied, which compelled Chateau Renaud to take up his position as before. Lucien received his weapon with a joyous smile. When Chateau Renaud took his pistol he became deadly pale. Then he passed his hand between his cravat and his neck as if he were suffocating. No one can conceive with what feelings of terror I regarded this young man, handsome, rich, and elegant, who but yesterday believed he had many years still before him, and who to-day, with the sweat on his brow and agony at his heart, felt he was condemned. "Are you ready, gentlemen?" asked M. de Chateaugrand. "Yes," replied Lucien. M. de Chateau Renaud made a sign in the affirmative. As for me I was obliged to turn away, not daring to look upon the scene. I heard the two successive clappings of the hands, and at the third the simultaneous reports of the pistols. I turned round. Chateau Renaud was lying on the ground, stark dead; he had not uttered a sound nor made a movement. I approached the body, impelled by that invincible curiosity which compels one to see the end of a catastrophe. The bullet had entered the dead man's temple, at the very spot that Lucien had indicated to me previously. I ran to him, he was calm and motionless, but seeing me coming towards him he let fall the pistol, and threw himself into my arms. "Ah, my brother, my poor brother!" he cried as he burst into a passion of sobs. These were the first tears that the young man had shed. __________ Woodfall & Kinder, Printers, Milford Lane, Strand, London, W.C. Transcriber's Note This transcription is based on images scanned by Google from a copy in the Bodleian Library: dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/590318888.pdf The scanned images (without the original cover image) are also available through Google: books.google.com/books?id=g7gNAAAAQAAJ Variant spellings such as "trowsers" and "examing" have been retained, and in general, inconsistencies of punctuation and italicization were also not changed. However, when the punctuation seemed problematic, a copy of the French text was consulted, and in a few cases the punctuation was changed as noted below. The copy consulted, which was printed in Paris in 1874 by Michel Lévy frères, is posted by the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/lesfrrescorses01dumagoog The following changes were noted: - p. 20: "Yes," he repled, "to a rendezvous."--Changed "repled" to "replied".