I return to the recital of what is passing in my prison house.
Last night and early this morning I had an opportunity to inspect the bars of the cage in which I am confined.

I happened to say before a superior officer that I was very desirous to see what was going on on the ramparts and in the forts at night, but that I had as yet been foiled in my endeavours to do so, when he told me that he would take me to both, provided in any account that I might give of them I would not mention localities, which might get him into trouble, or in general anything which might afford aid and comfort to the enemy.

Of course I accepted his offer, and at eleven o'clock P.M.we started on horseback.
We soon struck the Rue des Remparts, and dismounted.

Along the top of the ramparts there was a line of sentinels.

They were so numerous in some places that they almost touched each other.