Fortunately we have not much beyond my wife's jewels that we want to save.

Like your wife's brother, I have already made provision in England for this." "I will be off as soon as I see the servants tied up." He ran downstairs again.

The two men and the maids willingly suffered themselves to be tied up, when Leigh explained to them the reasons for which it was done.
"Mind," he said, "if questioned, you say you believe that the men who rushed in and fastened you up were sailors." Before the work was done Monsieur Flambard came down and, standing at the door which communicated with the cellars, shook hands with his rescuers as they went out; and thanked them most heartily, in the name of himself as well as his wife, for the service that they had rendered.

The men, before they passed through the door, took off their masks.

It had already been arranged that they should at once scatter, and return quietly to the places where they had been at work, and in so large a place it was not likely that their absence had been noticed, as it would be supposed that they had gone to another part of the cellar, and it was not above twenty minutes since they had left it.
As soon as they had gone out, the door was locked on the inside.
Leigh and the Flambards went out at the back entrance into another street, and there separated, Leigh hurrying back to his lodgings.
Madame Chopin opened the door.
"Madame," he said, "I have good news for my sister.