I got up to the top of the wall all right, and was able to fasten the rope on to the spikes and slide down on the other side.

The woman was there with a man, whom she told me was her brother.

They took me to a creek two miles away and there put me on board a boat, and I was rowed out to a smuggling craft which at once set sail, and two days later was landed at Cherbourg.

So that's how I came to learn English." "Did you ever hear whether the woman who helped you was suspected ?" "I saw her brother two months afterward on one of the trips that the craft he belonged to made.

He said that of course there were a great many inquiries made, and his sister had been questioned closely.