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that he idn't know, and didn't care to know,
and advised the fair questioner to go about
| her business.
Thus repulsed, poor Jeanette sat down by
the gate and cried for an hour, the noble dog
standing beside her all the while, and looking
the sorrow which he had no language to ex-
press. When at last jeanette got up and
went home with a heavy heart, the intelli-
gent animal accompanied her to the door,
and then bounded away to take his post at
the prison gate, and watch for an opportu-
nifty to get in to his master.
jeanette passed a sleepless night, praying
for the deliverance of him she loved. The
next morning at daylight she again repaired
to the prison, but Bobon was not to be seen.
She made further inquiries for her husband,
and learned that he was imprisoned within,
but could not be communicated with till
after the trial, which would take place when
| ever the authorities should see proper. What
the charges were against him her informant
either did not know or would not tell. Poor
Jeanette after this remained most OF the day
at the gate of the prison, but heard nothing
more concerning her husband, and saw moth
ing more of Bobon.
The evening following the dog returned to
her and acted very strangely. He barked
and whined, rubbed his head against her
knees, looked up wistfully and keenly into
her face and occasionly put up a paw to his
neck as if to remove the collar. Whenever
jeanette would open the door as before for
him to conduct her to her master, he would
| catch hold of her dress with his teeth and
run back and howl plaintively, and then go
through with all his strange motions again.
Did he want to communicate something,
| poor fellowa
AT length if occurred to Jeanette that his
collar might hurt him, and she proceeded to
remove it. The dog stood perfectly still
until she had accomplished her purpose, and
then joyously whined, wagged his tail, and
skipped about playfully. But there ap-
peared to be nothing wrong about the
collar; n Jeanette would have buckled it
on again, only that, whenever she attempted
it, the poor brute would crouch down and
howl so m~ournfully as to cause her to desist.
Suddenly, in turning the collar over in her
hand, Jeanette, to her great surprise and de-
| light, espied a few words scratched along the
centre, as it might be with q sharp stone or
nail. With a palpitating heart she immedi-
ately set to work to decipher them, and soon,
with such feelings as only one in her station
might experience, made them out as follows:
"Fasten a bit of pencil and paper to the
| collar, and let Bobon come back to jacques
Trembling jeanette set to work to comply
! with the request of her poor, dear, impris-
oneG husband, and as soon rs this was accom-
plished, the dog politely permitted her to
buckle on the collar, and rushed with q bark
and a bound through the open door for his
| exit.
That night and the mex day passed slowly
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thing more from her husband; but the night
ensuing the dog came back; and on removing
his collar, she found penciled on the paper
she had sent the following hopeful note:
"Tm confined in IN upper cell. The grated
window is toward the east. Between the
prison and an open space beyond is a high
wall. There's a fine saw down at the shop,
among my small best tools, made from the
main spring of a watch. SEND ne that
coiled in the collar of Bobon. 1 ALWAYS told
you L bought that dog for something, and
now l know for what. I think | can cut the
bars and lower myself into the yard. The
| second night from this, at 2 o'clock precisely,
throw one end of a rope owe the wall, and
| fasten the other, SO that ! can draw myself
up, if L happen to get out-and, with the
saints blessing l may. I don't know what
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body else does; but the place has a guillctine
feel about it, and Id rather be of with YOU
and Bobon. I'm not very closely watched.
Don't fail me, and soon 1 hope your arms
will again clasp your poor Jacques"
1t is needless to follow out the result in de-
tail. The saw was found and secreted in the
collar of Bobon, who, true to an instinct
amounting to reason, flew back to the prison,
and awaited his nance of lodging in at the
first gate. Terribly exciting were the hours
passed by Jeanette, till the time came for her
to act, and to be made happy with success, or
rendered wretched by failure.
At l o'clock Of the e~ventful night which
was to witness her happiness or misery, the
trembling and half-fainting wife took her
station in the deep shade of the eastern wall
Of the prison, with a rope coiled in ore hand,
and Bobon, who had joined her a few hours
before, now standing quietly and patiently
by her side. Oh! how her poor heart beatl
and how every sound made the blood leap and
her nerves thrill!
AT last the great clock of a neighboring ca
thedral struck heavily and solemnly the hour
of two. No longer trembling, but nerving
herself for the great purpose she had in view,
Jeanette quickly poised the coil in her right
hand; and holding firmly to one end of it
with her left, sent it upward with a sincere
prayer into the air, and heard a faint, duh
sound as it struck on the other side.
Was he there? Somebody was-for, in less
than a minute, she felt a slight pull upon the
| rope. Quickly fastening her end around her
body, she grasped it with both hands, and
thus held against the heavier strain that fol
lowed. Harder and heavier became the strain
upon the rope; but, throwing herself against
the walls she still held firmly, till she felt the
cord suddenly loosen; and then, looking up
ward, her heart fairly leaped to her mouth as
she beheld a dark figure upon the top of the
wall. A minute later, Jacques stood safe be.
side her, having run down along the rope,
which he had taken the precaution to fasten
on the other side before making his ascent.
No word was now s~poken-not a whisper
even the dog remained silent. Grasping the
hand of Jeanette, Jacques stealthily, silently
and hurriedly led her away, through one
dark and narrow street after another, till he
reached a place of safety. The next day a
search was made for him; but he managed to
keep himself secreted till after the reign of
murder had ceased to be; and then be came
forth from his hiding place and made a boast
of his own cunning, his wife's devotion. and
his dogs sagacity.
WOMAN.