The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-24

But who are they7' L said. looking
at him.
THE woman knows" he answered.
eve must ask her, my lord
L assented; and we went back into
the house, where it would not have
surprised me If we had found the
Wretches flown and the nest empty.
But Colet had done his work too we'll
They we're both there, and. in a mo-
ment, at Il signal from Boisrueil, We're
secured and pinioned. Parabere hear
ing the 6cuff1e, came out and would
have demonstrated, but l sllenced him
with a sharp word; and. despatching
La Font with a couple OF discreet men
TO keep watch in the court that we
might not be surprised, babe one of
the servants throw some fire cones on
the fire. These blazing up, filled the
squalid room in q moment with glare
Of light. Which revealed alike the liYid
faces of the two prisoners and the ex-
cited looks ana dark countenanceS Of
my escort.
1 babe them put the woman forward
first and addressed her sternly telling
her that [ knew all, and that she
would do well to confess, inasmuch
as if she made clean breast Of the
matter, I would grant her her life,
and If she did not, she would be the
( first to die, since I would hang her
house
The promise found her unmoved. but
( the threat uttered in g. tone which
/ showed that l was in earnest, proved
more effectual. With an ugly look,
under which my men Shrank as if her
I eye had power to scOrch them, the
! bag said that she would confess, and,
with impotent rage. admitted the
! truth of Boisreuips surmises. The
/ rearward gate had been barricaded
that afternoon by the Great Band,
who had had notice of our coming,
and intended to attack US at midnight.
( [ asked her how many they mustered.
/ "a hundred" she answered sullenly.
! Every we'll" I said "And supposing
| that we did not wait for them, how
/ shall we escape? BY the road to
/ Gueret?'
Fifty lie in ambush on it,
"By the road by which we came?"
The other fifty lie there
! "Aeross the riyer?"
There is no ford''
tsThen in the village? If we seiza
! some other building?"
THE village is watched. and this
house" she answered, with a sparkle
| of joy in her eye.
! At that the position began to assume
! so serious an aspect that [ turned tc
/ Parabere to take his advice. We Nun
! bered twenty in all, and were well
| armed; but five to one are large odds
and we had little ammunition, while fol
| all we knew the house might be fired
with ease from the outside. The
I roads north and south being occupied
and the river enclosing us on the west
! there remained only one direction in
| Which escape seemed possible; but. as
we knew nothing of the country, ano
/ the brtgands everything, the deSper
| ate idea of plunginS into it bhndly, al
I night and with pursuers at our heels
| was dismissed as soon as formed.
I Parabere interrupted these calcula.
/ tons by drawing me aside in tht
room in which we had supped, where
after rallying me on the whimsical
notion of the grand master of the ord
nance and governor of the bastile be
| ing beSieged in a paltry inn. he con
fessed that he had been wrong, anC
/ that the adventure was likely TO prove
serious. ''Ten to one this is the VERY
| band that BareilleS is pursuing" h
said.
very likely" [ answered bluntly
but the question is how are we Il
evade them. Are we to fight or Ay?'
We'll, for fighting" he replied cool
I ly; ''the front gate lies in the road
| there are no shutters to half the win
dows, the door is crazy, and there i
a matched penthouse against on
wall
"And no help nearer than Gueret'
Three leagues he assented. 'AnC
! from that we are cut off. Fifty mel
in the gorge might hold it against 500
Better man the court yard here thai
that, tether the horses in the gateway
and fight it out
Perhaps, So" I said; and we Iookec
at one another, hearing through tn
no
whispering in the kitchen, and abov
their voices the dull murmur of tn
stream, which seemed Of a piece wit
the bleak outside, the ruined hamlet
and the danger that lurhed around Us
Bitterly repenting the hardihood tina
had led me to expose myself to Sucl
risks in breach Of the kings com
mandment, I found 1t difficult to direc
my mind to the immediate question
SO. many reflections connected with m
mission at Chatelherault and othe
affairs Of state would intrude that
seemed to be occupied rather with tn
results of my death at this juncturt
and particularly the injury hich
must infict on the kings service
than with the question how I coul
escape.
However, Parabere soon recalled m
to the point 1T is now 10 o'clock,
he said in a placid tone; eve hay
! two hours"
Yes" 1 answered; then, as if m
, mind had all the time been running
an under-current to the desired goa
, I continued. And we must make tn
most of them. We must remove tn
barricade, in the dark, and quietl!
: from the rear to the front gate. D
you see? Then the moment the
: sound the attack in front, we mus
slip out at the back, make dash &c
the road, and through the gorge [
Gueret.''
: Good" Parabere assented, With II
I utmost GOODNESS. why not? Tx
Us do it,
eve went in, and in moment til
orders we're given, and, the men b,
ing charged to be Silent and to mali
as little noise as possible over tt
work we had every hope of accen
=. pliShing it undetected. To go out il
L to the road and raise and replace IL
shattered gate would have been t.
bold step. We contented ourselYe
therefore, with removing four gre:
baulks of timber from the one gate
the other, and placing them across IL
gap in such a manner that being SUI
;, ported, by large stones. they forme
q, pretty high barrier. To these
; ! BoisrueiPs suggestion, we're adde
three doors which we forced fro
their hinges in the house, and behir
the whole, to cover our retreat IL
g better, we tethered six sunpt
horses in two lines
1t remained only to unbar the re-
: gate and see that 1t opened easi]
I This being done. as we had d.ne {
: the rest. Stealthily and in darkness
= and by men Who dared not spef
/ above whisper. I gave the word
: hang the male prisoner and gag III
!, bind the woman Coiet pnue,tt,,