The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 39: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER III EXPLANATIONS {NFINITE were the confusion, the din, and the bustle which followed this forcible entry of the Spanish gendarmes into the tavern. Kate, while doing her best to restore her com- panion to consciousness, heard the rush of footsteps up the first flight of stairs, also the loud and menacing voices of the police, and the despairing ejaculations of the landlord. In a few minutes hasty and heavy footsteps ascended the flight to the attic, the door opened, and a gendarme, with a candle, appeared upon the threshold. He spoke to Kate Marshall, but she understood him not, and shook her head to make him comprehend that she was a foreigner unacquainted with the Spanish tongue. At this conjuncture Paquetta came back to consciousness. The light which the official carried showed Kate where there was a pitcher of water in the room; she hastened to give the young woman some of it to drink, and in a few minutes more she was completely recovered. Then Paquetta and the gendarme exchanged rapid observations, and the official beckoned her and Kate to descend. They obeyed his signal, and on reaching the landing below, they perceived the innkeeper in the custody of two of the police. Despair and horror were depicted upon his coun- tenance; he looked the most abject wretch alive. A glance, flung down the staircase, showed Kate that the two mule- teers were also in the hands of other officers, and thus was it but too evident that she had experienced a truly miraculous escape from the hands of a set of murderous monsters. But there was yet another phase in the night’s proceedings to meet her view. For on the bed in the room originally allotted to herself, and whence Paquetta had so noiselessly and 27 EORNIELOOOKS (E(0)