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Andrea was indebted for this visit to the following circuraphs were set at work in all directions, and almost immediately the authorities in every district had exerted their utne, that royal residence and fortified town, is well furnished with authorities, gendaran operations as soon as the telegraphic despatch arrived, and the Bell and Bottle being the best-known hotel in the town, they had naturally directed their first inquiries there

Now, besides the reports of the sentinels guarding the Hotel de Ville, which is next door to the Bell and Bottle, it had been stated by others that a nuht The sentinel as relieved at six o'clock in thehis post a fewman arrived on horseback, with a little boy before hi dismissed the boy and horse, knocked at the door of the hotel, which was opened, and again closed after his entrance This late arrival had attractedno other than Andrea, the coadier, directed their steps towards his rooadier, who thoroughly understood the trick; "a bad sign to find the door open! I would rather find it triply bolted" And, indeed, the little note and pin upon the table confirmed, or rather corroborated, the sad truth Andrea had fled We say corroborated, because the brigadier was too experienced to be convinced by a single proof He glanced around, looked in the bed, shook the curtains, opened the closets, and finally stopped at the chimney Andrea had taken the precaution to leave no traces of his feet in the ashes, but still it was an outlet, and in this light was not to be passed over without serious investigation

The brigadier sent for so filled the chiht to it The fire crackled, and the smoke ascended like the dull vapor from a volcano; but still no prisoner fell down, as they expected The fact was, that Andrea, at ith society ever since his youth, was quite as deep as a gendaradier, and quite prepared for the fire, he had cliainst the chiht he was saved, for he heard the brigadier exclaiendar to peep, he perceived that the latter, instead of retiring, as ht have been reasonably expected upon this announce with increased attention