The upper windows were safe, however: the shots did not range so high.

At one of these, over a watchmaker's shop, a little girl was to be seen, looking down with eager interest.

Presently an old man came in view and led her away.

A few minutes of fierce struggle passed, and then at another window on the floor below the child appeared again.

She saw a youth with a sword hurrying towards the Cohue Royale from a tangled mass of combatants.