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"You may throw the handle after the hatchet!" he uard is within four yards of the door" And in the rage of

disappoint this way?"

"No He is looking down the passage towards our room But it is

impossible to pass him"

La Tribe nodded, and hted

the rooht be possible to escape that way, by the parapet and

the tiles But he found that the caseh in the roof,

which sloped steeply from its sill to the eaves He passed to the other

, in which a little wicket in the lattice stood open He looked

through it In the giddy void white pigeons heeling in the

dazzling sunshine, and, gazing down, he saw far below him, in the hot

square, a row of booths, and troops of people , in the middle of all! Involuntarily,

as if the persons below could have seen his face at the tiny dornonville to co man

complied, he bade him in a whisper look down "See!" he erof

dust his face turned a shade greyer

"You had no need to fear that he would let us go!" the minister muttered,

with half-conscious irony