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Saint Bartholomew’s Eve

CHAPTER 12: An Escape From Prison
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Everything went off well, and you know the rest, sir." "You managed wonderfully, Pierre.

I thought over every plan by which you might aid me to escape, but I never thought of anything so simple as this.

Nor, indeed, did I see any possible way of your freeing me.
"How are we going to get our horses?
The farmer will think that we are a party of thieves." "They are in an open shed," Jacques said.

"I told the farmer that our reason for bringing them out of the town was that you might have to start with orders, any time in the night; and that it would be troublesome getting them out from town stables, and having the gates opened for them to pass out; while, on foot, you could issue from the postern without trouble.

I paid him for the corn when I left them." The horses, indeed, were got out without any stir in the house indicating that its occupants were awakened.
"Give me your sword, Pierre," Philip said, as he mounted.


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