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In the Reign of Terror

CHAPTER IX
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Write it very small, only on a tiny piece of paper, so that a man can hide it anywhere, slip it into her hand, or put it in her ration of bread." Jeanne wrote the little note--a few loving words, and the message Harry had given her.
"Do not sign your name to it," Harry said; "she will know well enough who it comes from, and it is better in case it should fall into anyone else's hands." That evening Harry learned that the woman had consented to sound her brother, who was still employed in the prison.

She had said she was sure that he would not betray her even if he refused to aid in the plan.
"I am to see her to-morrow morning," Elise said.

"She will go straight from me to the prison.

She says discipline is not nearly so strict as it used to be.

There is a very close watch kept over the prisoners, but friends of the guards can go in and out without trouble, except that on leaving they have to be accompanied by the guard at the door, so as to be sure that no one is passing out in disguise.


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