She caught up the child, and then, thinking that if they saw its clothes they would search for it, she opened the drawers, seized them all, and ran down and put them and the child into the kitchen cupboard, as her mistress had told her, then ran back to her bedroom and began to dress.
"She heard her mistress call to Henri to go down and open the door.
She heard the pistol shot, and the Blues pour into the house.

She hurried on her clothes and went out.

They were searching all over the chateau.

The officer came up to her, with a pistol in his hand.
"'Where is your master ?' he said.
"'I do not know,' she replied.

'He rode away from here ten days ago, and has not been back since.' "'That is the tale your mistress tells,' he said.
"'It is true, sir.