She says her brother is good-natured but very fond of money.

He is always talking of retiring and settling down in a farm in Brittany, where he comes from, and she thinks that if he thought he could gain enough to do this he would be ready to run some risk, for he hates the terrible things that are being done now." "He seems just the man for us," Harry said.

"Will you tell your friend, when you see her in the morning, that I will give her twenty louis and her brother a hundred if he can succeed in getting Marie out ?" "I will tell them, sir.

That offer will set his wits to work, I have no doubt." Harry then gave her the note Jeanne had written, for the woman to hand to her brother for delivery if he proved willing to enter into their plan.

Harry had a quiet night of watching, for Victor lay so still that his friend several times leant over him to see if he breathed.