The butler only thought them ill-looking fellows who knew no better.
"Now be off!" he continued irascibly.

"This is no place for your sort.
Be off!" And, as they moved, "Coming! Coming!" he cried in answer to a distant summons; and he hurried away on the errand which their appearance had interrupted.
Tignonville would have gone to work to recover the pallets, for the man had left the key in the door.

But as he went to do so the butler looked back, and the two were obliged to make a pretence of following him.

A moment, however, and he was gone; and Tignonville turned anew to regain them.

A second time fortune was adverse; a door within a pace of him opened, a woman came out.