My secret society work was done, and yet I lingered there, at the very steps of the scaffold.

Alixe Delavigne burst into my room at midnight.
"'Hasten!' she cried.

'Even now the Cossacks are surrounding the house!' She let me out through the secret passage of the old Chateau.

A cloak was thrown over me by the Intendant.

He was a Pole--and one true to the old blood.