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"The Post Office would have stopped letters or telegrams," said

Ricardo "I understand"

"On the contrary," replied Hanaud "No, I took my precautions,

which were of quite a different kind, before I knew the house in

Geneva or the nanol But one way of communication I

did not think of I did not think of the possibility that the news

ht be sent to a newspaper, which of course would publish it and

cry it through the streets of Geneva The arden of the house ran down to the

lake Aof Mlle Celie was close at hand And

the night had fallen As it e arrived just in time, and no

earlier than just in tie

had reached the house, Mlle Celie was no longer of any use, and

every hour she stayed in that house was of course an hour of

danger to her captors"

"What were they going to do?" asked Ricardo

Hanaud shrugged his shoulders

"It is not pretty--what they were going to do We reach the garden

in our launch At that moment Hippolyte and Adele, who is hted parlour on the

base her -boat which was tied at the end of

the landing-stage Quietly as we came into the bank, they heard or

saw us They ran out and hid in the garden, having no ti to lock it lest the sound