"Try and nerve yourselves, my dear girls, for you will need all your courage.

Marie is captured." "Oh, Harry!" Virginie exclaimed, bursting into tears, while Jeanne stood still and motionless.
"Why are you taking us away ?" she said in a hard sharp voice which Harry would not have recognized as hers.

"Our place is with her, and where she goes we will go.

You have no right to lead us away.
We will go back to her at once." "You can do her no good, Jeanne, dear," Harry said gently.

"You could not help her, and it would only add to her misery if Virginie and you were also in their hands.