Others, sucked in by the rush, were there by no will of their own, involuntary spectators of a gruesome spectacle.
Among the latter were the unfortunate occupants of a travel-stained coach, who, after surviving all the perils of the road between Dieppe and Paris, had now been suddenly upset by the crowd, and were painfully, and amid the coarse jeers of the onlookers, extricating themselves from their embarrassing position.

Just as the tide swept me to the spot, a male passenger had drawn himself up through the window and was scrambling down on to _terra firma_.
"Help the ladies!" cried he, glad enough evidently of his own escape, but not over-anxious to return to the scene of his alarm; "help the ladies, some one!" Just then, first a hand, then a pale face appeared at the window, which, if I had seen a ghost, could not have startled me more.

It was the face of Miss Kit, with the red light of the fire glowing on it.
"Help us!" she said, in French.
Need I tell you I had her in my arms in a moment; and after her her mother, who was not only frightened but hurt by the shock of the overturn.
That little moment was worth all the perils and risks of the past months; and if I could have had my own way, I would have stood there, with my little lady's hand clutching my arm, for a month.
It was impossible they could recognise me, with my back to the light, happening upon them in so unlooked-for a way.

But when I said, "Trust to me, Miss Kit," her hand tightened on my sleeve with a quick pressure, and she said,-- "Barry! thank God we are safe now!" I was a proud man that night as I fought my way through the crowd with two distressed ladies under my wing, and a fist and a foot for any one who so much as dared to touch the hem of their garments.
Mrs Gorman became so faint in a little that I was forced, as soon as we were out of the thick of the crowd, to call a vehicle.
The soldiers at the end of the street, when they saw who our party was, and heard that we were passengers in the overturned carriage, let us go by; "for we had been already well overhauled at the barrier," said they.
Once clear--and she kept her hand on my arm all the time--Kit said,-- "Then you are alive still, Barry ?" "Ay, Miss Kit; and ready to die for you." "This is a dreadful place!" said she with a shiver, looking up at the high houses we passed; "but it was worse before you found us." How could I help, by way of answer, touching her hand with mine, as if by accident?
"We are to go to the Hotel Lambert, Rue Boileau," said she; "and to- morrow we are to seek our kinsmen the Lestranges." "I have found them," said I.
Here Mrs Gorman looked up.
"Found them?
That is good; we shall have shelter at last." "Alas, mistress," said I, "they have lost all their goods and are living in great poverty.

It will be poor shelter." Here the poor lady broke down.
"O Kit!" moaned she, "why did your father send us on this cruel journey?
Did he want to be rid of us before our time ?" "Nonsense, mother; he thought we should be safer here than among the Leaguers in Donegal.