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"Patience, Monsieur, you have not heard me," Perrot interposed "I know

it after another fashion Do you rereat yard and the stables?"

La Tribe nodded

"Grated with iron at either end and no passage for so ? You

do? Well, Monsieur, I have hunted rats there, and where the water passes

under the wall is a culvert, a th In it is a stone,

one of those which fra man

can remove--and the man is in!"

"Ay, in! But where?" La Tribe asked, his eyebrows drawn together

"Well said, Monsieur, where?" Perrot rejoined in a tone of triumph

"There lies the point In the stables, where will be sleeping men, and a

snorer on every truss? No, but in a fairway between two stables where

the water at its entrance runs clear in a stone channel; a channel

deepened in one place that they may draw for the chambers above with a

rope and a bucket The roo all on the gallery; which was uncovered, in the co that way to Nantes, two years

back, found the chaainst her return Now, Monsieur, he and his Madame will lie there;

and he will feel safe, for there is but one way to those four

rooallery frolanced up an instant and La Tribe caught the

so in by the door"