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The Countess took one pace forward, as if she would have followed him, as

if she would have tried further persuasion But as she moved a cry

rooted her to the spot A rush of feet and the babel of e with a tide of sound, which drew rapidly nearer The

escape was known! Would the fugitives have time to slip out below?

Some one knocked at the door, tried it, pushed and beat on it But the

Countess and all in the roo out

If the two had not yet made their escape they must be taken Yet no; as

the Countess leaned froure and then a

second darted fro, out of

the Place Ste-Croix Before they gained it, four , was first, dashed out in pursuit, and the street

rang with cries of "Stop him! Seize him! Seize him!" Some one--one of

the pursuers or another--to add to the alarm let off a nal, the Place was in a hubbub,

people flocked into it with

roof--whence, precisely, it was i fire of

a dozen arquebuses alaritives had been baulked at the first turning

Making for a second, they found it choked, and, swerving, darted across

the Place towards St-Maurice, seeking to lose the desperately to their skirts,

overturning here a nonville, as he ran round a booth, tripped over a peg and fell, and La

Tribe stu thean to drag them with oaths