"The poor fellow must necessarily be warned.

Exile is at any rate preferable to imprisonment." Pierre sadly waved his hand.

"Yes, of course, I must warn him.

But what a painful task it is!" Guillaume made no rejoinder, for at that very moment, in that remote, deserted nook, where they could fancy themselves at the world's end, a most extraordinary spectacle was presented to their view.

Something or rather someone leapt out of a thicket and bounded past them.