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"You can touch nothing?"

"Nothing It's open A little ht touch the tiles" And

he strove to reach higher

For answer La Tribe gripped hi our dinner"

Tignonville thrust back the lath as well as he could, and slipped to the

floor; and hastily the tept the rubbish from the bed When Badelon,

attended by two men, ca nonville laid sullenly on the

bed Even a suspicious eye must have failed to detect what had been

done; the three who looked in suspected nothing and saw nothing They

went out, the key was turned again on the prisoners, and the footsteps of

two of thethe stairs

"We have an hour, now!" Tignonville cried; and leaping, with fla and tearing at the laths

a on the

bed,half-choked and in a

frenzy of ih which he could thrust

his arhbour

By this ti lime; the two could scarcely

breathe, yet they dared not pause Mounting on La Tribe's shoulders--who

took his stand on the bed--the younghis elbows on the joists, dragged hith landed nose and knees on the timbers,

which formed his supports A ers to his lips; then, reaching down, he gave a hand to

his coe