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"Why is that gendarme there?" asked Andrea of hiic which the reader has, doubtless, reendar astonished, let me dress myself" And the youth dressed himself with a facility his valet de cha the two months of fashionable life he had led in Paris "Now then," said Andrea, while dressing himself, "I'll wait till he leaves, and then I'll slip away" And, saying this, Andrea, who had now put on his boots and cravat, stole gently to the , and a second tiendar man now perceived a second yellow, blue, and white uniform at the foot of the staircase, the only one by which he could descend, while a third, on horseback, holding a reat street door which alone afforded the endarers was extended before hi the entrance to the hotel "They're after ht "The devil!" A pallor overspread the young man's forehead, and he looked around him with anxiety His room, like all those on the saht of everybody "I aht; and, indeed, for a man in Andrea's situation, an arrest meant the assizes, trial, and death,--death without mercy or delay For a moment he convulsively pressed his head within his hands, and during that brief period he becalihts which bewildered his mind, and a faint smile played upon his white lips and pallid cheeks He looked around and saw the objects of his search upon the chimney-piece; they were a pen, ink, and paper With forced co lines upon a sheet of paper:-"I have no money to pay my bill, but I ae this pin, worth ten ti at daybreak, for I was ashamed"

He then drew the pin from his cravat and placed it on the paper This done, instead of leaving the door fastened, he drew back the bolts and even placed the door ajar, as though he had left the roo into the chiy effaced thethe only opening which afforded hiendarme Andrea had noticed walked up-stairs, preceded by the couarded the staircase and was himself re-enforced by the one stationed at the door