I really don't see any possible way except by bribing her guards, and I haven't the least idea how to set about that.

I think to-morrow I will tell Jacques and his wife all about it; they may know some of these men, though it isn't likely that they do; anyhow, three heads are better than one." Accordingly, next morning he took the kind-hearted couple into his counsel.

When they heard that the young lady who had been arrested was the fiance of their sick lodger they were greatly interested, but they shook their heads when he told them that he was determined at all hazards to get her out of prison.
"It isn't the risk so much," Jacques said, "that I look at.

Life doesn't seem of much account in these days; but how could it be done?
Even if you made up your mind to be killed, I don't see that would put her a bit nearer to getting out of prison; the place is too strong to break into or to break out of." "No, I don't think it is possible to succeed in that sort of way; but if the men who have the keys of the corridors could be bribed, and the guard at the gate put soundly to sleep by drugging their drink, it might be managed." Jacques looked sharply at Harry to see if he was in earnest, and seeing that he was so, said drily: "Yes, if we could do those things we should, no doubt, see our way; but how could it be managed ?" "That is just the point, Jacques.

In the first place it will be necessary to find out in which corridor Mademoiselle de St.Caux is confined; in the second, to let her know that we are working for her, and to learn, if possible, from her whether, among those in charge of her, there is one man who shows some sort of feeling of pity and kindness; when that is done we should, of course, try to get hold of him.