Two rascally English prisoners have escaped, and the soldiers say that they must be somewhere in the town, for that they could never have passed through the lines.

Some gendarmes have been along the quays, inquiring if a boat has been missed during the night; but they all seem to be safe.

Written notices have been stuck up warning everyone, on pain of the severest punishment, not to give shelter to two young men, in whatever guise they may present themselves.

The gendarmes say that the military authorities are convinced that they must have received assistance from without." For the next three days, indeed, an active search was kept up.
Every house was visited by the gendarmes but, as there was no reason for suspecting one person more than another, there was no absolute search made of the houses; which indeed, in so large a town as Bayonne, would have been almost impossible to carry out effectually.
The fisherman reported each day what was going on.
"The soldiers are giving it up," he said, at the end of the third day.

"I saw Jacques today for the first time.