"The Marquis and Mademoiselle Agatha are already in their hands; they will be murdered before morning.

What is to be done?
Oh! Chapeau, what are we to do to save them ?" "M.

Denot!" said Chapeau.

"You don't mean to say M.Denot has turned blue--" "I saw him with my own eyes," said the boy; "he was one of the officers commanding the men; but there was another over him, a big, clumsy, noisy man; he it was I saw first of all, and Denot was behind him; and then there was a crowd of horsemen following them.

Both drawing-rooms were full before we knew they were in the house at all." "And how did you get through them, M.Arthur ?" said Chapeau.
"I got over the wall behind the stables.