At last we had him, but then we found that Jonah, who fought like a wild cat, had wounded both the soldiers with his knife, and, although himself wounded, had escaped by the stairs.

Leaving this man with the lieutenant, I rushed down after him, but one of the horses was gone, and I heard no sound of hoofs.

He had got a start of us, and is well out of Dover by now." I was straining all my attention to listen, yet my eyes fixed themselves on Phineas, whose head was thrown back defiantly.

Suddenly a voice came from behind my chair.
"That man must be pursued," said M.de Perrencourt.

"Who knows that there may not be accomplices in this devilish plot?
This man has planned to poison the King; the servant was his confederate.