Then we shall leave this place unharmed, as we entered it, and, whatever betide others, we shall live." Tignonville shrugged his shoulders.

"I tell you, you rave, M.la Tribe," he said petulantly.

"At any moment we may be discovered.

Even now I hear footsteps." "They tracked me well-nigh to this place," the minister answered placidly.
"The deuce they did!" Tignonville muttered, with irritation.

He dared not raise his voice.