The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-27
Inc Richmond Palladium. Thursday, December 81 1906

/ you are right. and we are fairly rreea.-
4 great bell had begun 10 ring i'm the
chateau. aud there was n loud buzz OF
voices and a clatter of feet upon the
stones. IIoarse orders We're shouted
and there was the sound of turning
keys. Five minutes passed. however
and yet another FIVE minutes. without
any one appearing.
We'll. III have that bar our. after
ALL" said the American at last. risip.
and stepping over to the window.
Anyhow We'll see what all this cater
wauling is about" He climbed up on
his pegs as he spoke and peeped out.
..Come up" he cried excigedlv 10 his
comrade. They've got some other
game going on here. and they are all
deal too busy to bother their heads
about us
De Catinat ciambered up beside him.
and the two stood staring down into
the courtyard. A brazier had been lit
at each corner. and the place was
thronged with men, many OF whom
carried torches. The main gate was
open. and carriage. which had appar-
emily just driven in. was standing at
n small door Immediately in front of
their window. y man wearing Il
plumed hat and enyeloped in a riding
coat stepped from the carriage and
then. turning round, dragged a second
person cut after him. There was a
sctfiie. Il cry. push. and the two fig
ures vanished through the door. As il
closed the carriage drove away, the
torches and braziers We're extinguished.
the main gate was closed once more,
and all was as quiet as before this
sudden interruption.
Well" casped De Catinat lis this
another kings messenger they've got:"
There will be lodgings for two more
here in short time" said Amos Green.
Give me your bar again. This thing
is giving. 1t won't take US long to
have it out He set TO work furious
ly, trying to deepen the groove in the
stone, through which he hoped to drag
the staple. Suddenly he ceased and
strained his ears.
by thunder said he. There's
some one working on the other side.'
They both stood listening. There
were the thud of hammers, the rasping
of a saw and the clatter of wood from
the other side Of the wall.
What can they be doing? Can you
see them?"
.They are too near the WALL
Il think can manage" said De Gait
nat. Il am slighter than you" He
pushed his head and neck and half of
one shoulder through the gap between
the bars. and there he remained until
his friend thought that perhaps he had
stuck and pulled his legs to extricate
him. He writhed back. however, with
out any difficulty.
"They are building something" he
whispered.
Building"
Yes. There are four of them, with
a lantern
What can they be building. them"
Its a shed, think. 1 can see four
sockets in the ground. and they are
fixing four uprights into them"
well. we can't get away as long as
there are four men just under our win
dow"
'Impossible.'
But we may as well finish our work
for all that"
The gentle scrapings Of his iron We're
drowned amid the noise which swelled
ever louder from without The bar
loosened at the end, and he drew it in.
The steady hammering and saving
went forward. It was early morning.
and the first cold light was beginning
to steal over the courtyard before the
work was at last finished and the work
men had left. Then at last the prison
ers dared to climb up and to see what
it was which had been constructed dur
ing the night 1t gave them a catch of
the breath as they looked at it. 1t
was a scaffold. 1t was buttressed up
against their wall, and in the center
stood headsman's block.
'I think it is time that we left" said
Amos Green. THE window is clear. |
Let us make a rush for it,
cit is useless. 1 can see line Of |
armed men along the farther side OF |