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It was now his turn to look about hi, was on his right; any one could descend fros in the tower, and examine every corner of the roof below, and Andrea expected endars If once discovered, he kneould be lost, for the roof afforded no chance of escape; he therefore resolved to descend, not through the same chi to another room He looked around for a chi reached it, he disappeared through the orifice without being seen by any one At the same minute, one of the little s of the Hotel de Ville was thrown open, and the head of a gendarme appeared For an instant it remained , then after a long sigh of disappointnified as the law he represented, passed through the croithout answering the thousand questions addressed to hiendarand ; but ill send to the Villers-Coterets and Noyon roads, and search the forest, e shall catch him, no doubt" The honorable functionary had scarcely expressed hiadiers of the gendar of a bell, resounded through the court of the hotel "Ah, what is that?" cried the brigadier

"Some traveller see?"

"Nuing were redoubled "Ah," said the brigadier, stopping the servant, "the person who is ringing appears to want soendarme Who occupies Nuht in a post-chaise with his sister, and who asked for an apart for the third tiuish

"Follow adier; "tread in my steps"

"Wait an instant," said the host; "Number 3 has two staircases,--inside and outside"

"Good," said the brigadier "I will take charge of the inside one Are the carbines loaded?"

"Yes, brigadier"

"Well, you guard the exterior, and if he attereat criraph says"