The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-27


send second one at another hour. and
SO one or other comes back with his
hair on. That's the Iroquois fashion
and a good fashion too
My God. | believe that you have
/ saved me-
Il went back 10 the major then. and
/ asked him when he WAS in Paris Ia
pass by the archbishop's door. l show
ed him this lump of chalk. If we've
been there said l. you'll see a great
cross ON the left side - the doorpost.
IL there's no cross. then pull the latch
and ask the bishop if hi! come up TO
Tie palace as quick as lis horses can
lsr.cg him. The major started an hour
after us. He would be in Paris BY half
past 10: the bishop would be in his car
riage by II. and he would reach Yer
sailleS half an hour ago-that is to say.
about half past l.. BY the Lord.
think I've driven him off his head
De Catinat spun round the cell now.
waving his arms and his legs. with his
shadow capcring up the wall behind
him, all distorted in the moonlight
''Oh. if | could but do something for
you." he exclaimed.
You can. then. Lie down on that
straw and go TO sleep"
BY persuasions and little pushing
he got his delighted companion on to
his couch again and heaped the straw
over him to serve as a blanket.
So weary was the young guardsman
that il was long past noon and the
sun was shining out OF cloudless blue
sky before he awoke. For moment.
enveloped as he was in straw. and
with the rude arch of the dungeon
meeting in four rough hem groinings
above his head, he stared about him
in bewilderment. Then in an instant
the doings of the day before. his mis-
sion, the ambuscade. his Imprisonment,
all flashed back to him, and he sprang
to his feet. Ills comrade, who had
been doing in the corner, jumped up
also at the first movement, with his
hand on his knife and a sinister
glance directed toward the door.
"Oh, it's you. is it?' said he. II
thought it was the man. They brought
those two loaves and jug Of water
just about dawn, when l was settling
down for rest
And did he say anything?"
mo; it was the little black one"
Simon, they called him."
THE same. He laid the things down
and was gone. l thought that maybe
if he came again we might get him to
stop. Maybe if we got these stirrup
feathers round his ankles he would
tell us where we are and what is to
be done with u.s.
"Pshaw! What does it matter since
our mission is done?"
1T may not matter to you-theres
no accounting for tastes-but it mat
tiers good deal to me. I'm not used
to sitting in a hole, like a bear in
trap. waiting for what other folks
choose to do with me-"
There's no help but patience, my
friend
II don't know that. I'd get more
help out of a bar and few pegs"
He opened his coat and took out
short piece of rusted iron and three
small, thick pieces Of wood, sharpened
at one end.
'Where did you get those, then?"
These are my nights work. The
bar is the top one of the CRATE. l had
a job to loosen it, but there it is. The
pegs l whitfield out of that log You
see, peg number one goes in here,
where l have picked a hole between
the stones. Then I've made this other
log into mallet, and with two cracks
there it is firm fixed so that you can
put your weight on it. Now these two
go in the same way into the holes
above here. So! Now, you see, you can
stand up there and look out of that
window without asking too much of
your toe joint. Try it,
De Catinat sprang up and looked |
eagerly out between the bars.
Il do not know the place." said he |
shaking his head. 1T may be any one |
of thirty castles which lie upon the |
south side Of Paris and within six or
seven leagues of it,
He was dropping back to the floor |
and put his weight upon the bar. To
his amazement it came away in his |
hand.
Look, Amos; lookr' he cried.
"Ah. you've found it out! Well. Il
did that during the night. could /
make 10 way with my knife, but when
got the bar out of the crate 1 man.
aged faster. I'll put this one back
now, or some of those folk down below
may notice that we have got it loose"
Are they all loose?"
.'Only the one at present, but we'll
get the other two out during the night.
You can take that bar out and work
with 1t while I use my own picker at
the other You see, the stone is soft,
and by grinding it you soon make
groove along which you can slip the
BAR. 1t will be mighty queer if we
ant clear a road for ourselves before
well, but even if we could get out
nto the courtyard where could we
urn to them"
Zone thing at a time, friend. Any
way, there is more air in the yard
han in here, and when the window is
lear we shall soon plan out the rest"
The two comrades did not dare to
10 any work during the day for fear
hey should be surprised by the jailer
n observed from without. The instant
hat night fell they were both up upon
he pegs. grinding away at the hard
tone and tugging at the bars. 1t was
rainy night, and there was a sharp