The young man had been made free that he might prove a decoy for more important game.
His every step was being watched, and he still thought Jeanne Lange in immediate danger of death.

The look of despair in his face proclaimed these two facts, and Blakeney's heart ached for the mental torture which his friend was enduring.

He longed to let Armand know that the woman he loved was in comparative safety.
Jeanne Lange first, and then Armand himself; and the odds would be very heavy against the Scarlet Pimpernel! But that Marguerite should not have to mourn an only brother, of that Sir Percy made oath.
He now turned his steps towards his own former lodgings by St.Germain l'Auxerrois.

It was just possible that Armand had succeeded in leaving a message there for him.

It was, of course, equally possible that when he did so Heron's men had watched his movements, and that spies would be stationed there, too, on the watch.
But that risk must, of course, be run.