He looked at the beds, perceived at once that he had been duped, went to the open window, and then exclaimed, "_Sacre Dieu! ils m'ont echappes et je ne suis plus caporal.

F----tre! a la chasse_!" He rushed out of the room, and in a minute afterwards we heard him open the street door, and go away.
"That will do, Peter," said O'Brien, laughing; "now we'll be off also, although there's no great hurry." O'Brien then resumed his dress of a gendarme; and about an hour afterwards we went down, and wishing the hostess all happiness, quitted the cabaret, returning the same road by which we had come.

"Now, Peter," said O'Brien, "we're in a bit of a puzzle.

This dress won't do any more, still there's a respectability about it, which will not allow me to put it off till the last moment." We walked on till daylight, when we hid ourselves in a copse of trees.
At night we again started for the forest of Ardennes, for O'Brien said our best chance was to return, until they supposed that we had had time to effect our escape; but we never reached the forest, for on the next day a violent snowstorm came on; it continued without intermission for four days, during which we suffered much.

Our money was not exhausted, as I had drawn upon my father for L60, which, with the disadvantageous exchange, had given me fifty Napoleons.