"Monseigneur!" exclaimed Pierre, not in an offended but in a pleading voice.

Helen did not answer, and he continued:

Thus they parted, the outlaws returning in the direction from whence they had come, and Gurth proceeding to the tent of his master, to whom, notwithstanding the injunction he had received, he communicated the whole adventures of the evening.

"I know who has taken it," repeated Rostov in an unsteady voice, and went to the door.