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274 BY THE AID OF FIRE. door. “Thanks, my good sister,’’ said she. Suzanne slipped out, and Claudine followed her. They plunged into the silent depths of the park, and embraced as soon as they were sheltered by the trees. ‘‘Some minutes more, and we are free,’’ said Claudine. They ran to the angle of the wall and found Déroute — waiting very impatiently. vd have given the signal twice, and no one has answered me,’’ said he. ‘‘ Wait for me here.” Suzanne shivered and felt Claudine’s hand tremble in hers. Déroute walked along the walls, and assisting him- self by some branches, climbed like a cat to the top. The night was black, great clouds having suddenly vailed the moon. He listened, and it seemed to him that whispering was going on some few steps from him. Déroute got astride of the wall and descended by planting the blade of his knife between the stones. When he had reached the ground, he went straight in the direction from which the whispering had come, but all at once two men pounced upon him. “Go to the devil!” cried one of them, who was Grippard, — while Bouletord struck him with a poniard, The voice saved Déroute; he received the blow in his clothing as he leaped to one side like a squirrel. Bouletord threw himself upon him, but the sergeant gained the wall and disappeared in the shadows. At the end of a hundred steps he climbed a tree and jumped from it into the con- vent garden. ‘That is a blow,:Monsieur Bouletord,’’ said he, as he rose, ‘which I shall endeavor to pay you back.”’ CHAPTER XLI. BY THE AID OF FIRE. Suzanne and Claudine had heard Grippard’s ory: this cry carried away all their hope as a gust of wind carries away aspark; they pressed each other close, trembling for Jacques and Cornelius. Just then they heard Déroute © | as he fell upon the turf. In two bounds he was before ~ them. Mae + ‘ta a . i ~ ~ : + 7 J © 7 an) , was, Claudine leaned toward her, in that way masking the p comicbooks.co