"Should aught happen to us, you will, I know, be a father to them." "Now, Harry," the marquis said when he had mastered the emotion caused by the parting, which he felt might be a final one, "since you have chosen to throw in your lot with ours, I will give you a few instructions.

In the first place, I have hidden under a plank beneath my bed a bag containing a thousand crowns.

It is the middle plank.

Count an even number from each leg and the centre one covers the bag.
"You will find the plank is loose and that you can raise it easily with a knife; but wax has been run in, and dust swept over it, so that there is no fear of its being noticed by any who may pillage the house, which they will doubtless do after we are arrested.

I have already sent an equal sum to Louise Moulin.